Amarok 2.2.1.90 cannot play files with '#' in the path or filename

[Rex Dieter]

Valorie Zimmerman wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Jack Lloyd <lloyd at randombit.net> wrote:
>>
>> I just saw the thread on this from earlier this month in the archives.
>> Upgrading phonon from 4.3.50 to 4.3.80 seems to fix it.
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 01:09:05PM -0500, Jack Lloyd wrote:
>>>
>>> I recently upgraded from Amarok 1.4 to 2.2.1.90. This version
>>> seemingly cannot play any files that contain '#' in the filename or
>>> pathname; they show up in the playlist but Amarok just skips over
>>> them.
> 
> I have the same situation in 2.2.1.
> 
> In Ubuntu/Kubuntu, phonon-related files installed are:
> 
> phonon-backend-xine, version 4:4.3.1-4ubuntu1
> libqt4-phonon, version 4.5.3really4.5.2-0ubuntu1
> python-qt4, version 4.6-1
> 
> All are the latest available with Kubuntu backports installed. Any
> suggestions?

Ask your distro for newer phonon or backported patches.

Patches/commits are referenced here:
http://bugs.kde.org/172242

-- Rex