[Feedback] Please have FLAC seek fixed

[Tibor Horvath]

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Jeff Mitchell <kde-dev at emailgoeshere.com>
wrote:

> tibor at email.virginia.edu wrote:
>
>> Tibor Horvath sent a message using the contact form at
>> http://amarok.kde.org/en/contact.
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Amarok is an awesome player but I'm not going to use it until FLAC seek is
>>  working. You should either make the xine team fix their engine, or add
>>  another engine that works out of the box. (The arts engine did not work
>> well  either.) I'm also not willing to generate seek points in all my FLAC
>> files.  Thanks!
>>
>
> Tibor,
>
> The arts engine is not supported and not recommended.  The fact that you
> were using it makes me think you're running very old software.  What version
> of Amarok are you using?  What version of xine?
>
> As for seeking in FLAC, I don't know the details of the format, but if FLAC
> requires seek points in the file for seeking and you don't have them,
> there's nothing you can really expect anyone to do; you would have to add
> them yourself.
>

Jeff,

I tried the arts engine in desperation. I have Amarok 1.3.9 (KDE 3.5.2) and
Xine 1.1.1. I couldn't get Amarok 2 to work for me.

Seeking in FLAC does not require seek points; other players (e.g. Rhythmbox
0.9.3.1) play and seek in them fine.

Thanks,

-- 
Tibor
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