[Mageia-discuss] Music player

Diego Bello dbello at gmail.com
Sat Jun 16 00:38:52 CEST 2012


On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Marc Paré <marc at marcpare.com> wrote:
> Le 2012-06-15 11:00, Dimitrios Glentadakis a écrit :
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>> 2012/6/15 Diego Bello <dbello at gmail.com
>> <mailto:dbello at gmail.com>>
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>>    On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Gary Montalbine
>>    <gmontalbine at cox.net
>>    <mailto:gmontalbine at cox.net>> wrote:
>>     > I was using Amarok as a player for my music files. After an
>>    upgrade to
>>     > Mageia2 it would stop at each song in the folder. Had to
>>    continually restart
>>     > each song. Found Guayadeque in the repositories. Works great. Thanks
>>     > developers.
>>     > Gary
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>>    The same happens to me but only with ogg songs. With mp3 I have no
>>    problems at all.
>>    If the same happens to you, let's report a bug.
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>>    Regards,
>>
>>    --
>>    Diego Bello Carreño
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>> i think that amarok needs xine as phonon backend
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>> Clementine uses gstreamer , and can benefits crossfade between songs for
>> that (xine does nt support any more crossfade)
>> --
>> Dimitrios Glentadakis
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> I have GStreamer as my backend. It's the only one on the list, Xine is not
> there. Maybe, Xine is not used with Amarok, unless you install it.
>
> Marc
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> Amarok 2.5.0
>

I tried the Xine backend and didn't work at all. Someone said in this
thread that it was broken upstream.

So, it seems there is a problem with the gstreamer backend playing
ogg. Let's try with the VLC backend. You will have to install it from
the repositories.

-- 
Diego Bello Carreño


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