amarok & flac

[Jeff Mitchell]

On Friday 10 November 2006 07:40, Art Alexion wrote:
> On Thursday 02 November 2006 22:55, Greg Meyer wrote:
> > On Thursday 02 November 2006 6:09 pm, Jeff Mitchell wrote:
> > > Art Alexion wrote:
> > > > Is the failure of amarok-xine to support flac files a Kubuntu thing
> > > > or does it affect all of the 1.4 releases?
> > >
> > > Also, a good test for whenever you're trying to figure out if a problem
> > > playing a format is related to Amarok or the xine libraries is to fire
> > > up xine-ui (usually just "xine") and see if you can play the file.  If
> > > you can't, it's a xine problem; if you can, it could be an Amarok
> > > problem.
> >
> > It seems from my experience talking to people on #amarok that the xine
> > can't play flac files that are tagged with id3 tags.  If the tags are
> > stripped, the files play fine.
> >
> > Apparently some Windows encoders use id3 tags instead of vorbis comments
> > when tagging files.
>
> Well, yes and no.  At least I am getting closer.
>
> Yes, it seems xine can't play flacs with tags, but plays flacs without
> tags. No.  Vorbis tags don't play any better.  I write my tags using
> easytag, and this stops them from playing.
>
> Is there another engine compatible with kubuntu dapper that doesn't have
> this problem?

I don't know what engines Kubuntu has but you could try Helix.

Also, I do know that the xine/flac problem is fixed in xine-cvs.  When xine 
1.1.3 comes out pester your maintainers for it.  Flameeyes has also fixed a 
bunch of other bugs...

--Jeff