Audacious will not play

[linko47]

My music runs just fine in amarok, but not audacious. I have installed, reinstalled, removed all configs, reinstalled again, nothing works. I receive this error (when I press the play button) when audacious is run in the terminal:



linko@X61:~$ audacious
MADPlug-Message: failed to open audio output: XMMS reverse compatibility output plugin


Thanks for any help fellow ubuntu'ers

Edit:

Just tried on my girlfriends xubuntu laptop, and I get the exact same error....

[gandaran]

remove audacious-crossfade if it's installed and install ubuntu-restricted-extras.

[markbuntu]

Change the output plugin in Preferences/Audio to pulse audio or alsa.

[linko47]

Change the output plugin in Preferences/Audio to pulse audio or alsa.

Thanks!
Thanks!
Thanks!

Changed to alsa, did the trick!

[spisek]

Change the output plugin in Preferences/Audio to pulse audio or alsa.

Thanks, works perfect. Thanks also to your mother and father!

[mrgedman11]

although noone probably cares, i had the same problem, and a quick search led me to this thread. changed to alsa, and BAM! music with little overhead :)

thanks guys

[ohgodnotanother1]

Changing the output/plugin to ALSA helps me to play audio files. Before the audio file wasn't playing at all.

However now I see the file playing in Audacious but I don't hear a single sound. Does this sound familiar to anyone?

If yes, please also post the solution here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1057101

EDIT: I had to disable the on-board audio chip in the BIOS and on the next boot-up all sounds worked fine.