Sound in an application

I have downloaded spell-a-word to my iPad 2 but no matter what I do I cannot get the sound to work. It appears to be at the highest level when I push the button at the top of the ipad. On screen it says the volume is at 5 or 6. I have restarted the iPad. Any suggestions as to what to do to get the sound to work in the application.
Thanks.
Nancy

Have you got notifications muted ? Only notifications (including games) get muted, so the iPod and Videos apps, and headphones, still get sound.
Depending on what you've got Settings > General > Use Side Switch To set to (mute or rotation lock), then you can mute notifications by the switch on the right hand side of the iPad, or via the taskbar : double-click the home button; slide from the left; and it's the icon far left; press home again to exit the taskbar. The function that isn't on the side switch is set via the taskbar instead : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4085
If that doesn't work then you could try closing the app completely and seeing if it has sound when you re-open it : from the home screen (i.e. not with the spell-a-word app 'open' on-screen) double-click the home button to bring up the taskbar, then press and hold any of the apps on the taskbar for a couple of seconds or so until they start shaking, then press the '-' in the top left of the app to close it, and touch any part of the screen above the taskbar so as to stop the shaking and close the taskbar.
Another option after that is a reset : press and hold both the sleep and home buttons for about 10 to 15 seconds (ignore the red slider), after which the Apple logo should appear - you won't lose any content, it's the iPad equivalent of a reboot.

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for basic sounds, you can use the JavaSound API.
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/sound/index.html
There are plugin libraries available that add MP3 and OGG support to it.
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http://search.java.sun.com/search/java/index.jsp?qp=&nh=10&qt=%2Btitle%3Aapplication+%2Btitle%3Asound&col=javaforums
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VLC shows the same error and Exaile says "konfigured audiosink 'bin1' does not work". But in .asoundrc there is no "bin1"...
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I noticed that nano messed the line breaks up. So longer comments started in a new line and were not commented of course. I fixed that. Now the output is:
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pcm_direct.c:936:(snd1_pcm_direct_initialize_slave) unable to set buffer size
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pcm_dmix.c:1030:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to initialize slave
[AO_ALSA] Playback open error: Invalid argument
Failed to initialize audio driver 'alsa:device=ch51dup'
Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound.
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Video: no video
Edit2
I set a different Buffer size in .asoundrc as the comment told.
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[AO_ALSA] Unable to get initial parameters: Invalid argument
Failed to initialize audio driver 'alsa:device=ch51dup'
Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound.
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Video: no video
cat /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/sub0/hw_params
closed
speaker-test -c 6 -D surround51 -t wav gives output on front left and front right And I read it might be a problem since kernel 2.6.34
Last edited by McFlow (2010-09-07 12:36:59)

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