mp3blaster "Failed to open sound device"

[Kyentei]

Hello everyone,

The last few days I have been having issues with using mp3blaster on Ubuntu 10.10. If I recall correctly, it always used to work.
When I was using Debian on my desktop, mp3blaster worked fine. I have recently installed Ubuntu 10.10, and now it does not. Same issue goes for my laptop.

The issue is: Whenever I want to play a song, it says "Failed to open sound device".

All other media applications work just fine, and my user is in the desired groups too. I have no clue where to look anymore, as all topics I have found on this issue are from 2006 or earlier. (without providing a solution)

I hope you guys can help me out here.

- Kyentei

EDIT:
Hm, nevermind I suppose. Mp3blaster depends on /dev/dsp which was removed since Ubuntu 10.10.

More info here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ux/+bug/634211

EDIT2:
Solution!
If you run mp3blaster within padsp, it will work!

padsp mp3blaster

[stratos001]

Thank you so much for this solution. I have been looking for this for a while

[mister-el]

Hello,

it works also for me. In my opinion, this hint belongs to the documentation under /usr/share/doc/mp3blaster

cu el

[riderplus]

There's still a problem. I can't control the volume. Pressing "t" does nothing, no mixer shows up. That's after solving the previous problem, thank you for the solution. I don't have any /dev/mixer files, so...how can I use ">" and "<" to control the volume if there's no mixer??

[Temüjin]

Instead of using the OSS output (and emulating oss with padsp), you can use SDL (works in Oneiric or later).
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/752091

[riderplus]

Thanks for the answer, but I've no idea how to use that one

[Temüjin]

echo "AudioDriver=sdl" > ~/.mp3blasterrc

[riderplus]

Ok, now I upgraded to 11.04 and mp3blaster uses SDL out of the box. But I still have no mixer and no possibility to decrease/increase the volume! That's really weird, is there any way I could make it see the mixer?

EDIT: I upgraded to 11.10, but the only way I could make it see the mixer was by passing options to padsp like this:

padsp mp3blaster -s /dev/dsp

There's no way I could make it see the mixer with SDL.