Anyone knows what happened to audacious2? I checked the main page of Arch. The "recent updates" list doesn't mention it. Is there some place one should check often to avoid this kind of surprise? I still would like to play music on linux. audacious (without the 2) doesn't work. Maybe because I only have a spdif connection to the external DAC/amplifier and there is no way to tell audacious to use it? TIA Jorge Almeida
On my system, the audacious package, (without the 2), is version 2.4.4-1. I don't recall seeing an audacious2 package on Arch. I do, however, see that /usr/bin/audacious is a symbolic link to /usr/bin/audacious2, so either way you call it, it should work for you. ~Kyle
2011/4/18 Kyle
On my system, the audacious package, (without the 2), is version 2.4.4-1. I don't recall seeing an audacious2 package on Arch. I do, however, see that /usr/bin/audacious is a symbolic link to /usr/bin/audacious2, so either way you call it, it should work for you. ~Kyle
pacman -Ss audacious extra/audacious 2.5.0-1 [0.35 MB] Lightweight, GTK2-based advanced audio player focused on audio quality extra/audacious-plugins 2.5.0-1 [1.44 MB] Plugins for Audacious
According to Marek Niklíček: # pacman -Ss audacious # extra/audacious 2.5.0-1 [0.35 MB] # Lightweight, GTK2-based advanced audio player focused on audio quality # extra/audacious-plugins 2.5.0-1 [1.44 MB] # Plugins for Audacious Oh wow! Very nice. /me runs and does an upgrade. ~Kyle
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Kyle
On my system, the audacious package, (without the 2), is version 2.4.4-1. I don't recall seeing an audacious2 package on Arch. I do, however, see that /usr/bin/audacious is a symbolic link to /usr/bin/audacious2, so either way you call it, it should work for you. ~Kyle
I have version 2.5.0-1. There is no /usr/bin/audacious2 anymore. I don't know whether it's a different package or just a different name. Anyway, I suspect alsa problems, dating from the same upgrading, 2 days ago or so. I remember seeing some useless alsa message that shouldn't be there if all went well. pacman -Syy seemed to clean up things, but it didn't. I just checked that xmms also doesn't work anymore. Thanks, and in case you're brave enough to "up"grade tell us whether you didn't lost your sound. Jorge
According to Jorge Almeida: # I have version 2.5.0-1. There is no /usr/bin/audacious2 anymore. I # don't know whether it's a different package or just a different name. It's a newer version of the same package. It seems that there has been a lot of development of Audacious between 2.4 and 2.5. # Anyway, I suspect alsa problems, dating from the same upgrading, 2 # days ago or so. I remember seeing some useless alsa message that # shouldn't be there if all went well. pacman -Syy seemed to clean up # things, but it didn't. I just checked that xmms also doesn't work # anymore. I have just completed a rather large upgrade which, in addition to Audacious, brought a shiny new kernel and some video package upgrades. After rebooting the computer due to the kernel upgrade, I have noticed no negative impact on performance, and all my sound works. As for Audacious, I'm having a few hiccups with the new version, but it is playing sound. The problems I'm having appear to be related to the global hotkey plugin and an error message that indicates that Audacious is already running when it in fact is not, rather than playback. A possible difference may be the fact that I have pulseaudio installed, whereas you may not, although pulseaudio shouldn't cause sound to work if it won't play without it. ~Kyle
A follow-up to the audacious 2.5 upgrade: All my issues seem to be resolved after removing .config/audacious. Of course, all prior configurations will be lost, but it seems to solve most problems associated with the latest version. Everything appears to be working normally here for now. ~Kyle
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 1:14 AM, Kyle
A follow-up to the audacious 2.5 upgrade: All my issues seem to be resolved after removing .config/audacious. Of course, all prior configurations will be lost, but it seems to solve most problems associated with the latest version. Everything appears to be working normally here for now. ~Kyle
Thank you for your input, Kyle. I have sound now (until next breaking). I had to unmute some channel with alsamixer. Why it was muted, beats me. Maybe something got corrupted when updating. I didn't experience your problems, and I don't have pulseaudio. Actually, I do feel the need for a sound server, but I don't think I'll try pulseaudio, given its history and the fact that its author doesn't like Unix. Jorge
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Jorge Almeida
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Kyle
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Marek Niklíček