No Playback Fedora 10 64-bit

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Sun Dec 7 00:13:17 UTC 2008


Neal Becker wrote:

> Rex Dieter wrote:

>> Justin Brown wrote:

>>>  However, I have the exact same
>>> problem on Fedora 10. I can build my collection, but when I try to play
>>> anything (tried aac, mp3, and flac) the progress bar fills up within a
>>> second, and it switches to the next song.

>> Fedora doesn't support nonfree/patented codecs out of the box, so that's
>> the expected behavior of amarok when playing such items (mp3, aac)

> Too bad we don't get a more useful diagnostic.

amarok folks, what say you?  Is something like this (a more useful error) within amarok/phonon reasonably possible?

-- Rex




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