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every time i try to play a song in xmms it freezes. it only seems to happen when i have move than 10 or so songs in my playlist, any ...
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- 06-25-2004 #1Linux User
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xmms freezes
every time i try to play a song in xmms it freezes. it only seems to happen when i have move than 10 or so songs in my playlist, any ideas?
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- 06-25-2004 #2Linux Engineer
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maybe you don't have enough ram available...
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how much would be needed? i have 256
- 06-25-2004 #4Linux Engineer
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you should probably have 512 ram...there are many processes running and use much as it seems of your ram.so if you open xmms and load a playlist of n-number of songs it uses ram (creates new processes which are putted in ram of the system) so it makes it go slower.if there is not enough then it crashes...maybe you should resize your swap to be 2*amount of ram of your system=>512mb..
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ok thanks, guess i'll head to best buy and get some more RAM, again. thanks!
- 06-25-2004 #6Linux Guru
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There's no way you would need more RAM to use XMMS!
Sorry, but that made me a bit upset. Unfortunately, I don't know what's wrong, but rest perfectly assured that it's not because you need more than 256 MBs of RAM. If you want empirical evidence, my sister has 128 MBs, and she's running FC2 and XMMS with a playlist of a couple of hundred songs. You don't even need 32 MBs to do that.
- 06-25-2004 #7Linux User
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would the fact the i have stuff like apache and mysql running affect it at all?
- 06-25-2004 #8Linux Engineer
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Are you trying to play a format you don't have the plugin for?
Is your audio output set to the correct sound server for your system?
- 06-26-2004 #9Linux User
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they are ogg vorbis and mp3 files and play fine in other apps.
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Were they precompiled or did you build from source? I would suggest downloading Xmms and compiling it, if it was a binary. If it wasn't, and you compiled from source, there are a some options: Upgrade, downgrade, or debug. If it persists, ask again
I am sorry fellas, but if you don't know the answer. DO NOT take a stab in the dark and say he doesn't have anough ram ... jeeze. Even if it were ten songs, that's 50 megs of ram... The songs aren't preloaded into ram, infact I am pretty sure there is little buffering to ram at all, and that's in the current song playing.
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