Maldev, I worked around the problem. First I noticed that my "guest" user's sound worked fine in Rhythmbox. A little more Google searching on a related(?) problem suggested that the problem is in the one or more of the files in my .pulse directory. I renamed the directory .pulseold and ran Rhythmbox again. Rhythmbox recreated a new .pulse directory with only 4 of the 16 or so files and broken links that were in the original .pulse directory. So the answer was to delete the .pulse directory. I still don't know if it was Rhythmbox, or Audacity that created the files that caused the problem.
Oh, and the related problem was that I would occasionally get a tooltip message that popped up in the lower RH side of my desktop that says "The Audio playback device (HDA NVidia ALC888) does not work. Falling back to playback/recording through the PulseAudio sound server." This message only pops up on it's own and disappears before I can read more than about 1/4 of it. I had to see it flash about a dozen times before I managed to read the whole message. About the settings in Rhythmbox, the only setting that I can see that may be related is the Preferred Format setting. The parameter might well do something, but it is a total mystery to me. To be honest, the Help for that setting is no help at all. The purpose of that setting is not stated. The explanation of how to edit the list in the combobox is equally useless. That needs to be rewritten. I am currently working as a software tester. I would fail an enhancement that relies on a totally mysterious parameter. Maxquig -- Sound output on Rhythmbox stopped working https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/496039 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
