Spotify mutes and sound disappears

Had a lot of problems recently with the sound in Spotify suddenly muting/disappearing in the middle of listening to music, although the progress bar of the song I was listening to kept on moving. I am using Debian and using Spotify via wine.

Found the solution though which was quite simple:
Run winecfg, go to the Audio tab and select the following settings under the DirectSound settings:
Hardware accelration: Emulation
Def. Sample rate: 44100
Def. Bits per sample: 16
Turn OFF Driver Emulation.

Hope this helps :)

Sound not working in Debian

After the latest updates/distro-upgrade of Debian testing as of April 2009, my mouse (as mentioned and fixed earlyer) and soundcard stopped working.. Here is the fix for the soundcard:

What I noticed was mplayers error:
Can't open audio device /dev/dsp

/dev/dsp was missing. In order to get it back again all I had to do was(as root):
dpkg-reconfigure alsa-base

And it was fixed :) Now just make sure your soundcard isn't muted, because if it is you can max the volume without getting any sound. I prefer using gmix (Gnome 2.0 Mixer in Fluxbox) for that.

Hope it helps you out :)