amarok engine setting

pajamabama

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Location: Golden, CO - USA

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Thursday, June 15th 2006, 1:27am

Is there a way to prevent amarok from switching output engines if the hardware for the one it's set to use isn't available?

since the upgrade to amarok 1.4, this seems to happen automatically during startup if it can't find the hardware associated with the one it's currently looking for. Of course if the hardware isn't there the engine won't work so in a way it makes sense. Only, it ends up being a pain because if xine is configured to use my USB speakers but the speakers aren't actually plugged in, it defautls to the 'void engine'. this means that I have to reset the engine once I get the speakers plugged in. It didn't do this in the past.

And amaork often loads at startup if it was open when I shutdown, even if I'm not planning to use it (and so don't have the speakers plugged in).

Thanks

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bram85

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Thursday, June 15th 2006, 3:44pm

RE: amarok engine setting

You could write a script which starts amaroK like this:

	Source code
1 2 3 4	#!/bin/bash kwriteconfig --file amarokrc --group Playback --key "Sound System" xine-engine amarok

Replace it by the amaroK link in your K Menu for example, or whatever you use to start amaroK.

Bram Schoenmakers
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pajamabama

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Location: Golden, CO - USA

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Sunday, June 18th 2006, 3:42pm

Thanks for the idea. This solves the problem of the xine engine not being set when it starts up.

There's no way to disable the feature that changes engines automatically though? In the previous version this didn't seem to be an issue.

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