[SOLVED] Clementine Error : Could not open audio device for playback

[sling-shot]

On my desktop, Clementine throws this error and I do not hear any sound.
VLC is able to play fine.

How do I go about researching this issue and find a solution?

-SS.

NOTE: I have recently added a sound card as the on-board sound went kaput. The sound card is identified as some C-Media unit. Here is my 'lspci' output:

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00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2)
00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:09.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge (rev a3)
00:0a.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP51 SMBus (rev a3)
00:0a.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a3)
00:0b.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:0b.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:0d.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 IDE (rev a1)
00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev a1)
00:0f.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev a1)
00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:14.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV730XT [Radeon HD 4670]
01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RV710/730
02:05.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
02:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10)


[hal8000]

On my desktop, Clementine throws this error and I do not hear any sound.
VLC is able to play fine.

How do I go about researching this issue and find a solution?

-SS.

I don't see your error, only your lspci output.
Just downloaded clementine and audio works ok for me with Intel sound chip.

This may help, open Clementine:
Goto tools, prefernec, playback.

The last section Gstreamer audio engine chooses which device to channer audio down.
I tried them all, and could get audio with all engines except two:
ALSA audio sink
Apple Airport Audio Sink

Change these settings, if still no audio, open a terminal, start clementine and post
the error message.

[Was_Just19]

On my desktop, Clementine throws this error and I do not hear any sound.
VLC is able to play fine.

How do I go about researching this issue and find a solution?

-SS.

NOTE: I have recently added a sound card as the on-board sound went kaput. The sound card is identified as some C-Media unit.

Make sure it is disabled in BIOS so sound apps do not try to use it.

If using Pulse Audio, check the Configuration page ......  if the on-board shows there then change it to "Off".

Also if there is an Audio Capability in your video --- HDMI for instance -- then the app may be trying to use this for its output.

[Dragynn]

Also: what file format are you trying to play in Clementine? May need another Gstreamer plugin to play certain types.  VLC has it's own de-muxers. I had to add ffmpeg and faad plugins to play all my media files in Clementine, and neon for streaming internet radio.

[sling-shot]

People, thanks for your suggestions.
I got it to work by changing Tools > Preferences > Playback > GStreamer audio engine from 'Choose automatically' to 'SDL audio sink'
Although I have no idea what it means or does, for the time being I am able to listen to my songs.
They are mostly .mp3s encoded from Audio CDs.
Thanks again.
-SS.

[stepcote71]

It fixed also the issue for me>

[cpufrier]

Worked for me too in new install of 64 bit 2013.04. Now to check and see if the Firefox magnet link for torrents still needs tweaking.

[Time7man]

Thanks! 
Worked here also.