Not playing songs with spaces in file names?

[Jeff Mitchell]

Bill Moseley wrote:
> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 04:16:04PM -0400, Jeff Mitchell wrote:
>> Bill Moseley wrote:
>>> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:34:32PM -0400, Orville Bennett wrote:
>>>> On May 12, 2009, at 8:37 PM, Bill Moseley wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I noticed some songs are not playing so spent some time with amarok -d
>>>>> to see if there was something obvious.  Only thing I noticed were that
>>>>> the songs that failed to play had spaces.  I didn't think that was
>>>>> likely.
>>>> Sounds like a phonon engine problem. Try using xine which shouldn't  
>>>> have an issue with this.
>>> Well, I'm new to Amarok2.  There's a "Settings" menu with "Configure
>>> Shortcuts" and "Configure Amarok".  Under Configure Amarok is
>>> "Playback", where I would expect to see that setting.  But, there I
>>> see only "Fadeout on track end" and "Miscellaneous - Resume playback
>>> on start".
>>>
>>> Is there a menu someplace I'm missing?
>>>
>>> I'm running Amarok on Ubuntu 9.04 with Gnome desktop.
>> It's possible that the link to the configuration dialog was added for
>> 2.1.  Try opening systemsettings (that's the name of the executable) and
>> go to Multimedia.  Then click the Backend tab.  If you don't have xine,
>> you'll need to install the phonon-xine package (I think that's the
>> name).  You might also want to try removing a phonon-pulseaudio package,
>> if you find one.
> 
> I installed "systemsettings", but when I open it it's a blank window
> with only a "search" box on top.
> 
> 
> moseley at bumby2:~$ dpkg -l | grep phonon
> ii  libphonon4                                 4:4.3.1-0ubuntu3                        Phonon multimedia framework for Qt 4
> ii  phonon                                     4:4.3.1-0ubuntu3                        metapackage for Phonon multimedia framework
> ii  phonon-backend-gstreamer                   4:4.3.1-0ubuntu3                        Phonon GStreamer 0.10.x backend
> 
> moseley at bumby2:~$ dpkg -l | grep pulse
> ii  gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio                   0.10.14-1                               GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio
> ii  libpulse-browse0                           1:0.9.14-0ubuntu20                      PulseAudio client libraries (zeroconf suppor
> ii  libpulse0                                  1:0.9.14-0ubuntu20                      PulseAudio client libraries
> rc  libpulsecore5                              0.9.10-2ubuntu9.3                       PulseAudio sound server core
> ii  libpulsecore9                              1:0.9.14-0ubuntu20                      PulseAudio sound server core
> ii  pulseaudio                                 1:0.9.14-0ubuntu20                      PulseAudio sound server
> ii  pulseaudio-esound-compat                   1:0.9.14-0ubuntu20                      PulseAudio ESD compatibility layer
> ii  pulseaudio-module-gconf                    1:0.9.14-0ubuntu20                      GConf module for PulseAudio sound server
> ii  pulseaudio-module-hal                      1:0.9.14-0ubuntu20                      HAL device detection module for PulseAudio s
> ii  pulseaudio-module-x11                      1:0.9.14-0ubuntu20                      X11 module for PulseAudio sound server
> ii  pulseaudio-utils                           1:0.9.14-0ubuntu20                      Command line tools for the PulseAudio sound 
> ii  xmms2-plugin-pulse                         0.5DrLecter-2ubuntu3                    XMMS2 - pulseaudio output plugin
> 
> 
> I started to remove pulse, but it will also remove ubuntu-desktop,
> which is not recommended as it is used for managing upgrades.

Dunno.  You might want to check in #kubuntu on freenode.  They've been
dealing with a lot of these issues, and might be able to help you even
though you're using vanilla Ubuntu.

--Jeff

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