[PLUG] Launch executable, nothing happens?

[Nick Aubert]

Do you know what your other players are using for their default output
plugin?  You should be able to find it from their configuration
settings.  I don't know what Gutsy uses by default, but my Gentoo
machine uses ALSA.  I'd be surprised if the RealPlayer audio output
issue weren't due to not using the same audio output plugin as the
others.

There's a post-XMMS Winamp-skinnable player called Audacious which
works for me.  It should be pretty stable.  The only problem I've ever
had with it is confusing it with Audacity because both project names
are based on the same pun.

-Nick


On Nov 23, 2007 11:32 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
> Lately I've had a couple issues that leave me totally puzzled. In a
> desperate attempt to get music playing properly on my Gutsy x86_64
> laptop I have been trying various players (Banshee, Amarok, Rhythmbox,
> inter alia). I found a cool one mentioned in an Ubuntu forum -
> Songbird. I installed it from the website into ~/Software/Songbird and
> it appeared to be installed OK. There was an executable in there
> "songbird" and I launched it by double clicking on it. So far, so good.
> After fiddling with it for a while I closed it down. Later I tried to
> relaunch it, but double clicking on the executable does not launch it.
> I restarted the computer, but it still won't launch. Nautilus
> identifies the file as an executable. From the command line "songbird"
> just gives me a new prompt. No error message, nada. What is even
> weirder is that, in spite of the fact that there definitely exists a
> file /home/jjj/Software/Songbird/Songbird/songbird, a search on the
> filesystem (Places > Search for Files) turns up no such file. Is
> Nautilus on drugs?
>
> OK, that is weird enough, but then I decided to try out Noatun, a KDE
> music player. It is listed in Synaptic, so that is how I installed it.
> The installation created a launch entry in Applications > Sound &
> Video. Clicking on the launch item does nothing. Launching it from the
> command line also does nothing. That is, I am just returned to a prompt
> with no error messages. A search for files reveals no files named
> "noatun," although there are various icon files with that name. What is
> this? Is Synaptic on drugs?
>
> There is more to this saga that someone here may be able to give me
> insight into. I have cool bluetooth headphones and they are awesome,
> but RealPlayer will not send sound to them. All other apps will send
> sound to the headphones as long as they are turned on; if not, the app
> sends the sound to the internal speakers or headphone jack. But
> RealPlayer will only send sound to the internal speakers or the
> headphone jack. I have googled all over, but bluetooth headphones are
> pretty recent on the market and I get no hits on my search. Evidently I
> am stuck and must replace RealPlayer with something else. Therefore, I
> am looking for an alternative (preferably native Linux open source)
> music player that can play MP3s and can play streaming radio. Rhythmbox
> is bug city. Amarok spams you with default links you cannot delete, and
> the rest that I have tried have various other problems. I'd be
> interested in other suggestions.
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