Fix for xmms (broken after last Jaunty update)
February 11th, 2010
After the most recent Jaunty update, I received this “Couldn’t open audio” error message when I next tried to play audiobooks on xmms:
Please check that:
Your soundcard is configued properly
You have the correct output plugin selected
No other program is blocking the soundcard
This thread had lots of info on diagnosing the problem.
(All I had to do was go to Options -> Preferences -> Audio I/O Plugins and choose “ALSA 1.2.11 output plugin [libALSA.so]” from the “” menu. It had been set to “OSS Driver 1.2.11 [libOSS.so]” before.)
