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[Martin Owens <doctormo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Ubuntu 14.04 64bit

This might be a situation that doesn't happen a lot but... My computer
is currently on a hard drive and is booting on different computers. Thus
the audio hardware changes between boots and this might have confused
pulseaudio regarding rythembox.

Symptoms:
 * Walltop: All sound works, no issue. Internal Intel audio only
 * Laptop: Sound works, tests work, gstreamer (Totem) plays sound, rythembox fails to play any sound. Internal intel audio.

Investigation: Install pavucontrol and notice sink for rythembox is set
to HDMI output, even though hdmi output is a) not enabled and b) not
available in the regular volume/sound settings user interface.

I set the audio sink to the right hardware interface and sound played
without issue.

But, this is a user interface issue, because there was a setting which
stopped sound from being played (or played it to the wrong sink
potentionally) but for which the sound control pannel failed to either
notice, notify or allow to be changed.

Pulseaudio also failed, because it allowed rythembox to fallback to an
application level hardware sink which was not in use. The walltop
doesn't have hdmi, so I think it just fell back to another hardware sink
after failing to lock onto hdmi.

** Affects: pulseaudio (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Description changed:

+ Ubuntu 14.04 64bit
+ 
  This might be a situation that doesn't happen a lot but... My computer
  is currently on a hard drive and is booting on different computers. Thus
  the audio hardware changes between boots and this might have confused
  pulseaudio regarding rythembox.
  
  Symptoms:
-  * Walltop: All sound works, no issue. Internal Intel audio only 
-  * Laptop: Sound works, tests work, gstreamer (Totem) plays sound, rythembox fails to play any sound. Internal intel audio.
+  * Walltop: All sound works, no issue. Internal Intel audio only
+  * Laptop: Sound works, tests work, gstreamer (Totem) plays sound, rythembox fails to play any sound. Internal intel audio.
  
  Investigation: Install pavucontrol and notice sink for rythembox is set
  to HDMI output, even though hdmi output is a) not enabled and b) not
  available in the regular volume/sound settings user interface.
  
  I set the audio sink to the right hardware interface and sound played
  without issue.
  
  But, this is a user interface issue, because there was a setting which
  stopped sound from being played (or played it to the wrong sink
  potentionally) but for which the sound control pannel failed to either
  notice, notify or allow to be changed.
  
  Pulseaudio also failed, because it allowed rythembox to fallback to an
  application level hardware sink which was not in use. The walltop
  doesn't have hdmi, so I think it just fell back to another hardware sink
  after failing to lock onto hdmi.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1340740

Title:
  Rhythembox sink is hidden by normal user interface

Status in “pulseaudio” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Ubuntu 14.04 64bit

  This might be a situation that doesn't happen a lot but... My computer
  is currently on a hard drive and is booting on different computers.
  Thus the audio hardware changes between boots and this might have
  confused pulseaudio regarding rythembox.

  Symptoms:
   * Walltop: All sound works, no issue. Internal Intel audio only
   * Laptop: Sound works, tests work, gstreamer (Totem) plays sound, rythembox fails to play any sound. Internal intel audio.

  Investigation: Install pavucontrol and notice sink for rythembox is
  set to HDMI output, even though hdmi output is a) not enabled and b)
  not available in the regular volume/sound settings user interface.

  I set the audio sink to the right hardware interface and sound played
  without issue.

  But, this is a user interface issue, because there was a setting which
  stopped sound from being played (or played it to the wrong sink
  potentionally) but for which the sound control pannel failed to either
  notice, notify or allow to be changed.

  Pulseaudio also failed, because it allowed rythembox to fallback to an
  application level hardware sink which was not in use. The walltop
  doesn't have hdmi, so I think it just fell back to another hardware
  sink after failing to lock onto hdmi.

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