[Feedback] Shn support

[Dan]

ho_ofbabylon at yahoo.com wrote:
> mikeize sent a message using the contact form at
> http://amarok.kde.org/en/contact.
>
> Hey guys,
>
> Great job with Amarok.  I love it even though I'm using a gnome
> environment (in ubuntu gutsy).  So many fun and useful features...  it's
> really helping me start to sort out (and enjoy) the mess that is my music
> collection.  It's also helping me convert my audiophile wife over to linux,
> so thanks for that too!  
> But... if there was ONE thing that I could wish for Amarok to have, it
> would be shn playback functionality.  I know it's not the most popular
> format, but like linux, it's gaining ground for good reason.  I have quite
> a lot of music in shn format, and it's frustrating to have such a great
> all-around music player that can't play my files.  So frustrating in fact,
> that I just use rhythmbox for all my music, since it plays shn files.  This
> is lame because Amarok is obviously way more awesome than rhythmbox (and
> most others).  So please, please, please move this up on your to-do list
> and make a lot of dead-heads happy!  Cheers!
>   
Hi,

Amarok can play shn's.  You need to add them from the files browser 
because shn is a horrible format that doesn't support metadata in the 
files, therefore it cannot be indexed.  My suggestion? Use flac.
> -mike
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