Bug#853158: audacious: snd_pcm_hw_params_set_rate failed

[Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn]

Package: audacious
Version: 3.7.2-1
Severity: important

Using this command line:

$ audacious -H -VVV -q example.mp3
...
INFO output.cc:164 [setup_output]: Setup output, format 3, 2 channels, 44100 Hz.
DEBUG alsa.cc:323 [open_audio]: Opening PCM device iec958:CARD=Live,DEV=0 for S16_LE, 2 channels, 44100 Hz.
ERROR interface.cc:121 [aud_ui_show_error]: ALSA error: snd_pcm_hw_params_set_rate failed: Invalid argument.

$ mediainfo example.mp3
General
Complete name                            : example.mp3
Format                                   : MPEG Audio
File size                                : 328 KiB
Duration                                 : 20 s 950 ms
Overall bit rate mode                    : Constant
Overall bit rate                         : 128 kb/s
Writing library                          : LAME3.99r

Audio
Format                                   : MPEG Audio
Format version                           : Version 1
Format profile                           : Layer 3
Duration                                 : 21 s 2 ms
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 128 kb/s
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Sampling rate                            : 44.1 kHz
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Stream size                              : 327 KiB (100%)
Writing library                          : LAME3.99r
Encoding settings                        : -m s -V 4 -q 3 -lowpass 17 -b 128

I've tested other players too, such as mpg123 and mplayer.
They play that file nicely.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages audacious depends on:
ii  audacious-plugins    3.7.2-2.1
ii  dbus                 1.10.14-1
ii  dbus-x11             1.10.14-1
ii  gtk2-engines-pixbuf  2.24.31-2
ii  libaudcore3          3.7.2-1
ii  libc6                2.24-9
ii  libgcc1              1:6.3.0-5
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.50.2-2
ii  libstdc++6           6.3.0-5

Versions of packages audacious recommends:
ii  unzip  6.0-21

audacious suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information


Cheers,

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Cristian