Bugzilla – Bug 104577
Amarok is not able to play ogg vorbis files
Last modified: 2005-08-28 17:55:39 UTC
While it is no problem to play ogg vorbis files using ogg123, amarok (using kdemm) refuses to play those files or even add them to the playlist and displays the message "Some media could not be loaded (not playable)".
Is this related to bug #103749?
no idea. The used engine in the beta is not exactly the right one, so it's possible it all belongs together.
FWIW, SuSe 9.3 (boxed version) has the exact same behavior (though I've got all 4 optional 'media packs' installed).
the kdemm engine will die, check if the other engines (namely xine and helix) support it
Also happens in beta 2. Changing to xine engine solves the issue.
I have same problems as mentioned above, but i found amarok will play the ogg files if you put them in a playlist. e.g. i make a .m3u file with my ogg files in it and let amarok rescan my collection. I then can play the ogg files by selecting the playlist from the playlists tab or via Actions->Play Media and open the .m3u file. Opening from collection tab or as individual file still doesn't work.
I see the same thing in beta3. I tried adding an engine, but there are none in the drop-down box. (I DO have sound set-up and working).
Got it working. My problem was that there was no engine installed at all. I installed the xine-engine package and it works now. Maybe that package should be a dependancy?
I was looking through the amarok kdemm engines source code to find out why it didn't play my ogg files and noticed detection of supported audio filetypes is absent and it just defaults to mp3 only. So it seems it's not quite finished yet. Going by comments above maybe the xine engine is better as default engine?
I'll update amarok to svn HEAD for Beta4. The ogg playback with helix has been fixed there.
Submitted updated package to STABLE. You can get test builds of the package from http://ct.kki.org/packages/10.0-beta3/ (just add that url as yast source).