Codec script for Amarok2: is this an option?

[Ian Monroe]

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 5:08 AM, Myriam
Schweingruber<schweingruber at pharma-traduction.ch> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> so far we get a lot of bug reports from users who simply lack the
> necessary codecs. Mark told me that Amarok 1.4.x did have a script
> allowing to check for codecs and propose  the installation
> automatically. So far there is no way to do that in Amarok 2.
> A proposition is to prepare a script checking if the codecs are
> installed, which is then completed by the distribution packagers with
> the package manager of their choice. Of course this needs the
> packagers to actually be aware of it and don't miss to fill that in,
> else we will be blamed again for the lack of codecs.
>
> Se also these bug reports: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200303
> and https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/amarok/+bug/346246
> for Kubuntu.
>
> Of course, not all distribution use packagekit, that's why I answered
> negatively in the Bugzilla bug.

When I opened Amarok on a new Kubuntu installation, it suggested I
install MP3 support. That seems pretty good.

Ian