Alex Sleat » soundcard https://alexsleat.co.uk /home/alex Tue, 19 Jun 2012 19:25:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= HowTo Fix: “There is a problem with your sound card. Spotify can’t play music.” (Wine) https://alexsleat.co.uk/2010/05/21/howto-fix-there-is-a-problem-with-your-sound-card-spotify-cant-play-music-wine/ https://alexsleat.co.uk/2010/05/21/howto-fix-there-is-a-problem-with-your-sound-card-spotify-cant-play-music-wine/#comments Fri, 21 May 2010 10:10:33 +0000 Alex https://alexsleat.co.uk/?p=53

Quite a few times I have encountered this problem, which I think is caused when the soundcard was recently used by another program and might still be busy but it means Spotify can’t play music, so a quick fix for this is to load winecfg and test your sound card which seems to force [...]]]>

Quite a few times I have encountered this problem, which I think is caused when the soundcard was recently used by another program and might still be busy but it means Spotify can’t play music, so a quick fix for this is to load winecfg and test your sound card which seems to force wine into tacking control of the it.

  1. Close Spotify
  2. In terminal type winecfg
  3. Click on the Audio tab (should be in the top middle)
  4. Click “Test Audio” and if you hear a sound this should work..
  5. Re-open Spotify and check a track, if it’s playing it’s worked otherwise you may have a different issue..
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