Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon <at> 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? -- [email protected] mailing list
