Amarok not taking account of m4a files when creating playlist files.

Myriam Schweingruber myriam at kde.org
Tue Dec 27 23:07:16 UTC 2011


On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 09:53, Joerg Mertin <smurphy at solsys.org> wrote:
> Hia folks,
>
> sorry, I'm no list member. However as I did read I can psot to this list
> even if not member, I take my chances.
>
> Since I have installed Amarok 2.5 2 days ago, my playlists, I usually
> convert using a python script from the iTunes Library.xml file, won't
> display any m4a files when selected.
> All existing mp3 files that are in the m3u-playlist will show up, but
> Amarok will constantly remove all m4a files from the files it will display.
>
> When I then go to some of the files on the Disk, I can play m4a files
> without a problem. That works. I also displays these files etc.

Which Phonon backend are you currently using?
>
>
> BTW - when I start Amarok, it first take 10 Minutes to put the CPU/Disk
> at full load. I really have to wait. On the older version (as provided
> by KUbuntu 11.10), I could go to "tools/update collection" to make that
> load go away ...

Do you have a loaded playlist with streams in it? That could be the
reason for such a delay.
But the CPU going up to 100% is an issue we can't reproduce here on
the developer machines, so this is quite difficult to solve. Which KDE
version do you use?

Regards, Myriam

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