Problem with media device in Amarok

[michael norman]

On Monday 05 November 2007 12:42:01 Jeff Mitchell wrote:
> 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
Jeff

Thanks for that.  As far as SUSE is concerned I'll wait for 1.4.8 package to 
appear.  At the moment it works on my Slackware install and as that is my 
main music box anyway its not a problem.

Mike