From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JeGZ9-0007ME-8T for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:20:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 208ABE0534; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:20:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC39FE0534 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:20:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EF3866C41 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:20:16 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.241 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.241 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.358, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id FftllYQHhqct for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:20:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 813D066C11 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:20:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JeGYq-00049Q-Vs for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:20:01 +0000 Received: from 84-72-81-46.dclient.hispeed.ch ([84.72.81.46]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:20:00 +0000 Received: from michael.schmarck by 84-72-81-46.dclient.hispeed.ch with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:20:00 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Michael Schmarck Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: rhythmbox plays silently Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:19:54 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <200803252159.41035.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 84.72.81.46 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-DE; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080318 Iceweasel/2.0.0.12) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 1166a260-319c-48c9-8f05-28d59f3adddf X-Archives-Hash: a33313af4d3d22d111a649e3272c6c79 Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes: > > On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: > > Good evening! > > > > I've got a problem with media-sound/rhythmbox-0.11.2-r1 on > > my new ~x86 system. When I play an MP3 file, I see that rb > > progresses and when I turn on visualization, I see the sound. > > But I hear nothing at all :/ > > > > Any ideas about why that's so? > > > > The volume slider in rb is all the way up. Also all the sliders > > in the mixer are all up. And when I use a different player, > > like Amarok, VLC or MPlayer, I hear sound when I play the song > > that's silent in Rhythmbox. This happens with all the songs > > I tried. > > > > Well - what to do? > > Easy. > > Don't use rhythmbox. Don't use Gnome. Why's that? Any particular reason why I should not use good programs? > Do use KDE. Most certainly not. > Do use Amarok. Do use mplayer. If it makes sense. > *especially* do use mplayer. Nope. Not for that task. You know, unlike you, I'm more into using tools that are made for a task. > I know this isn't what you want to hear. Exactly. I wanted to hear helpful comments. > I just couldn't resist an open > invitation to dig at Gnome. Oh, you mean you couldn't resist an open invitation to make yourself look like a fool? You were quite successul in doing so, I've gotta say, by replying without knowing an answer - or did you just wanted to look like a moron? Well - "mission accomplished", as they say. > I'll crawl back into my KDE and e17 fanboy > clubhouse and shut up now. It would've been better if you would've just shut up right from the beginning - or simply post helpful comments. The latter would be the preferred option, as far as I'm concerned. Michael PS: Does anyone know if Gmane features a troll filter? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list