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I'm running Spotify on Linux using Wine.
Sound worked great (even though the sound test in winecfg failed!), until I installed alsa-oss
package yesterday to get Flash sound working in Firefox.
Now Spotify says: "There is a problem with your sound card. Spotify can't play music."
So the question is, how to get the sound in Spotify working again, so that it also keeps working in Flash & Firefox? Tweak some ALSA settings? Spotify settings? Add/remove some packages?
By the way, curiously, now that sound doesn't work in Spotify, winecfg's "Test Sound" does work!
This is Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy). Sound card / driver is probably an integrated AC'97. Please mention if any additional information about the system is needed!
Update: I have Flash 10 installed (outside the packaging system, using $MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH
env variable), but also had Flash 9 from flashplugin-nonfree
package - and the earlier version was being used by Firefox! Based on what Mike Arthur said about Flash and alsa-oss
, I removed the older Flash (flashplugin-nonfree package) and alsa-oss
- and Flash sound still works, which is nice. But for some reason Spotify still doesn't play sound, even though things should now be like they were originally...
Update 2: Got it working, all smoothly, finally.
You shouldn't be using OSS full-stop. Look at enabling DMIX for ALSA (if it isn't already enabled). – Mike McQuaid – 2009-07-30T12:29:56.103
Thanks. Got it working with ALSA now; see the updated post. (I don't know where to configure DMIX for ALSA stuff - either that isn't needed, or it was enabled already.) – Jonik – 2009-07-30T14:13:12.480