Problem with media device in Amarok

[Jeff Mitchell]

On Monday 05 November 2007, Rich wrote:
> On 2007.11.05. 13:19, michael norman wrote:
> > Running 10.3 with KDE 3.5.8 release 21.2 and Amarok 1.4.7-111.pm.7 i586 I
> > find that I cannot, as I could before, add other formats (ogg, flac, wav
> > for example) to the list of formats I can add to be transferred to my
> > iAUDIO player.  In the dialogue box if I try to enter say ogg it appears
> > as "&ogg" and does not retain the setting.  The device is recognised in
> > all other respects and I have always to configure this feature in
> > previous versions of SUSE/KDE/Amarok.  It also works in Slackware 12.0.
> >
> > Is this a known problem ?
>
> yes, see thread named "Connecting new music player won't allow oggs" at
> http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/amarok/2007-October/thread.html
>
> from that thread :
> http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/amarok/2007-October/004476.html

Yeah, and it's so far been impossible to debug.  But a workaround is in place, 
so when 1.4.8 comes out you shouldn't have this problem.  (You can use Amarok  
SVN, stable branch right now if you can't wait :-)  ).

--Jeff