extragear/multimedia/amarok

Ian Monroe ian.monroe at gmail.com
Thu Mar 19 20:54:39 CET 2009


On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Dan Meltzer
<parallelgrapefruit at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Ian Monroe <ian.monroe at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Dan Meltzer
>> <parallelgrapefruit at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> No, taglib-extras has wma and mp4 support.  Amarok uses taglib-extras.
>>>  If taglib-extras is not present, amarok can still play music.  mp4
>>> and wma files are still playable via the file browser, but their
>>> metadata cannot be read.  This is similar to many other types of
>>> files.
>>
>> Lol, your arguing that Amarok has lost the feature because of the
>> location of this code in SVN?
>
> It hasn't lost the feature.  The feature has just become separated
> from the rest of Amarok.  Making it optional does not stop people from
> using it.

So if Amarok has the ability to read WMA and MP4 files, how is an
Amarok that isn't able to read MP4 and WMA files not a packaging bug?

Ian


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