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MiyoLinux

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Registered: 2016-12-05

Posts: 1,323  

Using the Pragha Music Player with only alsa

I realize that this may not be of much use to very many people, but I thought that I would post it just in case it may help someone.

My favorite GUI music player is Pragha. However, if you install it on an "alsa-only" system, it won't play out-of-the-box.

When looking at the recommended packages, it only recommends gstreamer1.0-plugins-good and gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio. Both will be included in a "normal" installation of Pragha.

You can safely remove gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio after the installation.

Anyway...back to the topic. It won't play on an alsa-only system after installation.

To get it to work, you will need to also install gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad...even though it's not listed as a recommended package.

After installing that, and you have Pragha set to use alsa, it works perfectly.

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Camtaf

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Registered: 2019-11-19

Posts: 436  

Re: Using the Pragha Music Player with only alsa

Like it!

Even though I don't use it, (never actually heard of it, but might give it a try).

Thanks for posting the solution.