Re: amarok betas?

Eduardo Habkost wrote:

> A related question: is using gstreamer as the phonon backend supposed to
> work with Amarok?
...
> In my case, Phonon was configured to use gstreamer (I didn't even had
> the xine backend installed) and I've installed gstreamer-plugins-bad
> and gstreamer-plugins-base, but Amarok refused to play any ogg or mp3
> file. The ogg files weren't even appearing in the directory listing
> at the "files" tab.
> 
> After installing and setting up the xine backend and
> xine-lib-extras-nonfree, Amarok is now able to play my files.
> 
> 
> Now I need to figure out why the songs don't appear in the "collection"
> tab. I have all artists and albuns listed, but when I click the "+" to
> open an album, there are no songs listed under it. Dragging the album
> to the playlist doesn't work, either. The only way to get anything added
> to my playlist was dragging files from the "files" tab.
> 
> I did an "update collection" and "rescan collection", but it didn't help.

Confirmed, I can't much, if anything, to show in my collection either, 
oggs, mp3's or otherwise.  Doesn't matter which phonon backend is in 
use.  Collection view seems to have not much to do with the ability to 
actually play the content.  These seem to be separate issues.

-- Rex


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