Greg Whitescarver’s Blog

One day Rhapsody stopped working in Ubuntu on my work machine. It didn’t stop working on my home Ubuntu machine, which runs the same version. I thought something I did installing non-packaged software like the JRE and Flash caused it to stop working. At the time I couldn’t find any information by searching. Today I found this thread, in which someone casually mentions solving the problem by doing a killall esd and restarting Firefox. ESD, the Enlightened Sound Daemon, allows multiple programs to share the sound card. I wonder why it breaks the Rhapsody Firefox plugin. I also wonder why there is no problem on my home computer. A more reliable solution seems to be disabling the software sound mixing under System… Preferences… Sound, although the player still seems to struggle.

Tags: music, Ubuntu

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