Tomahawk Player - Sporadic "Problem Accessing Audio Device" Errors

Hi, I have recently started using Tomahawk Player in GNOME and some songs from external sources can play and others receive an error that states:
"Sorry, there is a problem accessing your audio device. Make sure you have a suitable Phonon backend and required plugins installed."
However, I have phonon, phonon-gstreamer, and phonon-vlc installed.
How can I further diagnose this?
Last edited by bdamos (2014-11-30 19:48:16)

Hello,
That is unfortunately a not-very-helpful error message as it could mask a variety of problems. One of those problems is that it might happen if Tomahawk is unable to play the url for the track---what source has it resolved to? (rightmost column)?
Feel free to come ask us on Freenode (#tomahawk) and our forums on forum.tomahawk-player.org. You'll probably get a better response there.

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