Amarok freezes when displaying for install mp3 support

Sat Sep 1 13:07:55 UTC 2007

I also experienced this; I have to kill the process.
I solved with:
apt-get install xine-extracodecs

I hope it will be useful.
Best regards.

Gunth from Siena Linux

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>    3. Re: i wonder (J A)
>    4. Re: i wonder (Mark Kretschmann)
>    5. Sugerencias prioridad y WMA (suggestions about nice and WMA)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:33:01 +0200
> From: "Mark Kretschmann" <kretschmann at kde.org>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] proposed fix for the "amarok freezes when the
>         install mp3     support dialog appears" bug
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> On 8/29/07, Sascha Sommer <ssommer at suse.de> wrote:
> > the attached patch fixes
> >
> > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147126
> > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=304202
> >
> > "After loading an mp3 in amarok, I get a popup that asks if I want to
> install
> > mp3 support.  This is an excellent idea and feature -- but it doesn't
> work.
> > Amarok freezes right off, and is un-usable. I then have to kill it."
> >
> > The problem seems to be that EngineController::canDecode runs in a
> seperate
> > thread than the gui thread. Opening up a Kmessagebox there will prevent
> > amarok from handling all gui events and everything will freeze. I
> therefore
> > put the dialog into an extra function that will later get called from
> the
> > statusBar.
> >
> > The canDecode then only has to send an event to the statusBar in order
> to
> > display the dialog.
>
> Sascha, thank you very much for catching this. I've committed your
> patch to SVN, and I will encourage the packagers to backport the patch
> for 1.4.7. I think it's a really important fix.
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> --
> Mark
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> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:04:29 +0000
> From: "Robert Grow" <robertg027 at hotmail.com>
> Subject: i wonder
> To: amarok at kde.org
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> to any and all that read this,...ive just discovered something very very
> cool.
> has anyone else noticed that Amarok is also the name of one of Mike
> Oldfield's CDs?
> i would like to know if that is pure coincidance or if the creator of
> Amarok
> did that on purpose? if anyone knows would they post it ?
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> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:10:36 +0100
> From: "J A" <aftershockvibe at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: i wonder
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> On 31/08/2007, Robert Grow <robertg027 at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> >
> >
> >
> >
> > to any and all that read this,...ive just discovered something very very
> > cool.
> > has anyone else noticed that Amarok is also the name of one of Mike
> > Oldfield's CDs?
> > i would like to know if that is pure coincidance or if the creator of
> > Amarok
> > did that on purpose? if anyone knows would they post it ?
> >
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> http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/FAQ#Why_did_you_choose_the_name_Amarok.3F
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> ;-)
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> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 20:12:28 +0200
> From: "Mark Kretschmann" <kretschmann at kde.org>
> Subject: Re: i wonder
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> On 8/31/07, Robert Grow <robertg027 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > to any and all that read this,...ive just discovered something very very
> > cool.
> > has anyone else noticed that Amarok is also the name of one of Mike
> > Oldfield's CDs?
> > i would like to know if that is pure coincidance or if the creator of
> Amarok
> > did that on purpose? if anyone knows would they post it ?
>
> Heh. No, it's not a coincidence. Amarok was indeed named after this album.
>
> Mike Oldfield is pure awesome :)
>
> --
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> Message: 5
> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:13:34 -0500
> From: " Jos? Antonio Gonz?lez Diosdado "        <ats8darkpuma at gmail.com>
> Subject: Sugerencias prioridad y WMA (suggestions about nice and WMA)
> To: amarok at kde.org
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> After the spanish is the same message but in english
>
> A quien corresponda:
>
> Ser?a buena idea que Amarok viniera preconfigurado para trabajar con m?s
> prioridad de CPU, ya que para usarlo como hacer una lista de reproducci?n
> o
> el tiempo que se queda colgado al cambiar de pista hace perder mucho
> tiempo
> si se trabaja en ?l como usuario norma, en cambio al ejecutarlo como root
> con un poco m?s de prioridad funciona muy bien y no demerita en nada el
> funcionamiento del sistema.
>
> Otra sugerencia ser?a alg?n codec de tereceros que pudiera reproducir los
> archivos WMA sin p?rdidas (si puedo reproducir los normales) y que de ser
> posible lo incluyeran en las librer?as de Amarok.
>
> De antemano gracias
> Jos? Antonio
> atsdarkpuma
>
> ---Translation---
> It would be a good idea for Amarok to be preconfigured for working with a
> highest CPU priority, thats because its usage as a normal user its very
> slow, example when you are making a playlist or in the changes between a
> track to another, it delays a lot. In stead if I work in it as root and I
> increase the priority it works very well, as it must be, and I haven't
> seen
> any problem with the system due to increasing the priority.
>
> Another suggestion is to include a third party codec to play WMA loseless
> files (actually its possible to play normal WMAs), and it would be a good
> idea to include that codec in the Amarok shared libraries.
>
> Thanks any way
> Jos? Antonio
> atsdarkpuma
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> Message: 6
> Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 01:48:18 +0200
> From: Miguel Angel Alvarez <maacruz at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Sugerencias prioridad y WMA (suggestions about nice and
>         WMA)
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> El Viernes, 31 de Agosto de 2007 23:13, Jos? Antonio Gonz?lez Diosdado
> escribi?:
> > It would be a good idea for Amarok to be preconfigured for working with
> a
> > highest CPU priority, thats because its usage as a normal user its very
> To do what you suggest amarok should be suid root, and that is definitely
> NOT
> a good idea.
> > slow, example when you are making a playlist or in the changes between a
> > track to another, it delays a lot. In stead if I work in it as root and
> I
> > increase the priority it works very well, as it must be, and I haven't
> seen
> > any problem with the system due to increasing the priority.
> I don't see any of such big delays or slowdowns  using an 3 years old
> Athlon
> XP 2 GHz. Track change time is in the order of 0,1 s. May be your machine
> is
> much older.
> > Another suggestion is to include a third party codec to play WMA
> loseless
> > files (actually its possible to play normal WMAs), and it would be a
> good
> > idea to include that codec in the Amarok shared libraries.
> Amarok plays what libxine/phonon supports, so the right place to ask for
> this
> would be libxine and phonon mailing lists. Anyway, I'd suggest you not to
> use
> undocumented propietary fileformats and use any other free-as-in-freedom
> fully-documented file formats. For losless you could use flac, for
> example.
> > Thanks any way
> > Jos? Antonio
> > atsdarkpuma
>
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