Connecting new music player won't allow oggs

Greg Meyer greg at gkmweb.com
Mon Oct 29 12:31:45 UTC 2007


On Sunday 28 October 2007, Mark Fraser wrote:
> On Sunday 28 October 2007 13:51:33 Mark Fraser wrote:
> > Just tried to transfer some songs to a new music player, but it wouldn't
> > let me. In Configure Portable Player Support I tried adding ogg as one of
> > the formats the player supported, but it appeared as &ogg and disappeared
> > when I saved.
> >
> > This is with a new install of Kubuntu 7.10.
>
> I can now confirm this happens on another machine too. To test,
>
> Settings -> Configure Amarok
>
> Media Devices
>
> Add device
>
> Generic Audio Player
>
> Add a name and click OK
>
This occurred to me and I fixed it by hand editing the 
~/.kde/share/config/amarokrc file  Just remove the ampersands.

For some reason, an ampersand gets inserted in some of the formats.  Not sure 
why it is needed, but if they exists the thing barfs.

-- 
Greg



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