extragear/multimedia/amarok

[Dan Meltzer]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Ian Monroe <ian.monroe at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

It's an optional feature...
Amarok has the ability to connect to an ipod--does that mean that an
Amarok that can't connect to an ipod is a packaging bug?

Taglib-extras can be strongly recommended, but it definitely is not mandatory.
>
> Ian
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