severity 481046 normal thanks aha, I think I've figured this out.
I have a .asoundrc which specifies some LADSPA stuff including a non-existent plugin (attached) aplay also complains and fails to play anything: 11:05:09$ aplay out.wav ALSA lib pcm_ladspa.c:1502:(snd_pcm_ladspa_add_plugin) Unable to find or load plugin 'tap_bs2b' ID 0, path '/usr/lib/ladspa' aplay: main:564: audio open error: No such file or directory however totem-xine, totem-gstreamer, the flash plugin, amarok, rhythmbox and audacity all work ok. I'm not sure why they do and muine/aplay do not (as appose to just warning) - I think this bug should be re-purposed as "fail more gracefully or more informatively", and it might belong against alsa rather than muine (I'm not sure). Thanks for your help: I hope you don't mind me parking the bug here until I investigate further! -- Jon Dowland
pcm.ladspa { type ladspa slave.pcm "plughw:0,0"; path "/usr/lib/ladspa"; plugins [ { label tap_bs2b input { controls [ 3 1 ] } } ] } pcm.!default { type plug slave.pcm "ladspa" }