Given your recent ALSA problems, AmaroK is probably having trouble accessing the sound card.
play (and sox, for which play is a frontend) use the sound device in a fairly agnostic manner, they don't care which sound system is in control and will work fine with ALSA, OSS, and ESD.
AmaroK insists on ALSA, however, so it won't work if OSS or ESD is in charge.
You might want to bring the system to the next installfest and ask someone to help you clean up so you're only running one sound system. This will, however, probably break some of your apps, since too many apps, like AmaroK, insist on being specific to a particular sound system.
Michael Havens wrote:
> guess what.... I ran 'apropos sound' and discovered a program called 'play'
> and that works.
>
> Any idea what is wrong with amaroK.
>
> On Sunday 15 April 2007 6:16 pm, Michael Havens wrote:
>> I can't get it to play anything. When I load an mp3 or an ogg or a cda or a
>> flac or a wav it responds that some of the media could not be loaded. I
>> went through the configuration menu but that didn't help any. Any idea as
>> to what I should do to resolve this issue?
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