[SOLVED] No sound on XMMS

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Hi. I use XMMS to play mp3 music files but, since yesterday, there’s no sound. No such a problem if I use MPV to play the same files. I suppose I’ve done sth wrong, but I’ve no idea what. Reinstalling XMMS didn’t help. Any idea?

$ inxi -Fxz
System:
  Host: dragon Kernel: 4.4.212-antix.1-486-smp i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 
  Desktop: IceWM 1.6.5 Distro: antiX-19_386-full Marielle Franco 16 October 2019 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: TOSHIBA product: Satellite 2450 v: PS245E-03TE0-GK 
  serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: TOSHIBA model: Portable PC v: Version A0 serial: <filter> BIOS: TOSHIBA 
  v: Version 1.30 date: 03/20/2003 
CPU:
  Topology: Single Core model: Intel Pentium 4 bits: 32 type: MCP 
  arch: Netburst Northwood rev: 7 L2 cache: 512 KiB 
  flags: pae sse sse2 bogomips: 5586 
  Speed: 2793 MHz min/max: N/A Core speed (MHz): 1: 2793 
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA NV17M [GeForce4 420 Go] vendor: Toshiba America Info Systems 
  driver: nouveau v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: nouveau unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa 
  resolution: 1024x768~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI nv17 x86/MMX/SSE2 v: 1.2 Mesa 18.3.6 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 82801DB/DBL/DBM AC97 Audio vendor: Toshiba America Info Systems 
  driver: snd_intel8x0 v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.5 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.4.212-antix.1-486-smp 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL-8100/8101L/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter 
  vendor: Toshiba America Info Systems driver: 8139too v: 0.9.28 port: ce00 
  bus ID: 02:09.0 
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros TP-Link TL-WN821N v2 / TL-WN822N v1 802.11n [Atheros 
  AR9170] 
  type: USB driver: carl9170 bus ID: 1-3:2 
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 93.16 GiB used: 43.34 GiB (46.5%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: MK1032GAX size: 93.16 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 89.19 GiB used: 43.34 GiB (48.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
  ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 296 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 63.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 135 Uptime: 2h 52m Memory: 1003.0 MiB used: 430.3 MiB (42.9%) 
  Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 Shell: bash v: 5.0.3 inxi: 3.0.36

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Make sure preferences in xmms has your sound chip listed maybe.
Check alsamixer for any thing being muted.

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Thanks for the reply.
I can’t find any list of sound chips in XMMS preferences, but I don’t find it very possible to be the case because, as I wrote before, 2 days ago XMMS worked properly.
I got a glimpse of alsamixer, but if it caused the problem, I suppose I would have a general sound problem, including MPV etc.

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If you didn’t ‘purge’ xmms, you will be using its .xmms folder in your /home.

Try purging it, & then re installing it.

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Try settings in xmms – Options- Preferences – Outpit Plugin (ALSA)- Configure

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anticapitalista wrote:

Try settings in xmms – Options- Preferences – Outpit Plugin (ALSA)- Configure

That’s it! “Use software volume control” was unchecked. Obviously I had clicked on it by mistake; it’s the only explanation I can give. I turned it to checked and now it’s ok. Many thanks for your help.

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