[Bug 37248] Re: AmaroK tries to play MP3 without support - Should give an error

[ironstorm]

This is definately a bug...   I became quite frustrated trying to figure out why AmaroK was refusing to play MP3s and Shoutcast streams.   I had thought it either a conflict with artsd or a bug in AmaroK itself, because both MP3s and Shoutcast streams worked as expected in XMMS.   

Eventually, I thought to try to play the MP3s in xine-ui and discovered xine-ui immediately popped up a message saying something like "MP3 VBR type (0x0) codec not recgonized"...  Because of that error I eventually figured out that it was because "libxine-extracodecs" was missing.

Some options to fix this issue would be to fix the dependancies for AmaroK to require libxine-extracodecs or to fix the config so that they don't include MP3 support without the libs being there (since the upstream says its a packaging issue: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124540).

Cheers,
-G

** Changed in: amarok (Ubuntu)
       Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed
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AmaroK tries to play MP3 without support - Should give an error
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/37248