I'm now finished with Amarok

[Thomas Lübking]

Sorry cannot discontinue, #1 is relevant to the public.

Am 10.04.2011, 18:23 Uhr, schrieb Donn Washburn <n5xwb at comcast.net>:
> #1 not being set keep k3b, amarok and vlc (ones I play with) not to work
> before recent issues.
You have /explicitly/ been told that this is a "wrong" (bad) solution (aka  
"naive workaround")
I struggle to believe that SuSE doesn't explicitly add users to the audio  
group or resets the devnodes to root:root or similar but I don't know for  
sure either. (Last SuSE versions used was 10.3 were this was not the  
case), however and

To put that straight and very clear for you and everyone:
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"chmod 666 /dev/snd/*" etc IS PLAIN WRONG. - do NOT!
Just add your user account to the audio group or whatever group has proper  
permissions on those nodes.
Any sane Desktop distro should do that anyway and as a certified retired  
whatever and long time *nix user you actually should know that ;-P

-------- the rest is completely off topic ------------------

> #3 until recent Packman software I used to have to download and compile
> the same things Packman has now.  Which is kind of strange.  If legal
> reasons are for openSuSE not able to supply mp3 libxine-codecs and
> phonon-backend-xine then how does Packman supply it?  it is easier that  
> way.
Simple: packman as well as the SuSE hosted 3rd party repos are some  
webpage with random uploaders and undetermined legal context. (It's mostly  
the downloaders context that matters here - ie. yours)
SuSE/Novell/OwnerDeTouJours on the other hand is a company shipping solid  
reald world media (discs) what puts them under the terms of law of  
whatever country they ship those discs in. And for debatable reasons the  
legal terms in maaaany countries say: "no"
(But i do not know what'd be wrong with "shipping" different  "discs" as  
downloaded iso images that on real optical media. I guess it's a  
maintenance thing but i don't know.)

> 4. that used to be the only way to get Amarok to work.  Now xine-ui will
> compile but xine-lib kind of doesn't like to.
Same issue about mp3 patents?

Cheers,
Thomas