wine users - Oct 2010 - No Sound in Spotify with WINE

Apologies if you have also seen this post on the Ubuntu Wine forum, as I have
cross posted it there. I hope this is not bad form, but I wished to have the
best chance of getting some assistance as possible.


Spotify has suddenly stopped working for me. It used to work fine about a month
ago. The only recent change is that I have upgraded Ubuntu to 10.10 (previously
I had 10.04) I don't think (AFAIK) that I changed the version of WINE (1.2)
or Spotify Windows client.

Now when I try to play a song on Spotify I get the error "There is a
problem with your sound card. Spotify can't play music"

If I open the WINE config and play the "test sound" on the Audio tab I
get "Audio test failed!" It doesn't matter which driver I choose
(OSS/ALSA etc or what settings for Direct Sound I try I always get the Fail
message.


I can play other audio on Ubuntu eg with the Rhythmbox music player.


Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hardware: Acer Aspire 1363 laptop, Sempron AMD processor, 0.5GB RAM, 60GB HDD
OS: Ubuntu 10.10
WINE versions: Originally 1.2 also tried upgrading to 1.3.6 developer version 
Spotify version: 0.4.8.242

On 10/31/10 8:32 AM, achookang wrote:
> Apologies if you have also seen this post on the Ubuntu Wine forum, as I
have cross posted it there. I hope this is not bad form, but I wished to have
the best chance of getting some assistance as possible.
>
>
> Spotify has suddenly stopped working for me. It used to work fine about a
month ago. The only recent change is that I have upgraded Ubuntu to 10.10
(previously I had 10.04) I don't think (AFAIK) that I changed the version of
WINE (1.2) or Spotify Windows client.
You need to upgrade to Wine 1.2.1.  The kernel with Ubuntu 10.10 broke 
Wine's ability to play sounds.

James McKenzie

See sticky post about sound problems.