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Big Whiskey

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Monday, July 3rd 2006, 5:13am

Amarok 1.4 and FLAC

Greetings from a noob in the heart of Texas...

Using Amarok 1.4.1 and the Xine engine on KDE 3.5.3a (SuSE 10.1, AC97-based audio card) any attempt to play a FLAC-encoded track results in a nasty yellow box saying "there is no audio channel." FLAC played fine under Amarok 1.3 (original SuSE 10.1 distro); additionally, JuK handles FLAC just fine on my system but lacks some features I use in the latest Amarok. Thinking that my installation of Xine lacked a FLAC library, I've been looking for one without success (There are some outdated Mandriva rpms that do me no good) while downloading and recompiling the Xine source resulted in so many errors I thought my computer was going to reach out and slap me in the face.

Is there something I'm missing? I seem to remember a post mentioning Gstreamer support removed for Amarok 1.4; could this be the source of my trouble? I'm impressed by the 1.4 build of Amarok; it works wonders for my .ogg files, but is less than useful to me if I can't play FLAC files with it. I'd rather not go back to 1.3 if don't have to; that's the last resort. Suggestions appreciated...

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Thursday, July 6th 2006, 2:53pm

I've the same problem, I don't know why amarok have this problem X(

The old version is better than new version ;(

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Monday, July 10th 2006, 6:50pm

RE: Amarok 1.4 and FLAC

I've got the exact same problem. Debug doesn't show any errors referring to missing dependencies either. I'm on Suse 10.1 x86_64 OSS using the Suse 10.2 factory distributin RPM's for Amarok 1.4. I back revd to 1.3 just to check, and Flac works just fine on that version.

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Monday, July 10th 2006, 8:45pm

I' ve reinstalled amarok 1.4rc3 and I have no problem............... ;)

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Monday, July 10th 2006, 11:43pm

I think this is a problem with xine-lib/libxine, and that the latest version of xine-lib (1.1.2 I think) fixes it.

In the meantime, if your distro has a way for you to do it, you can just use the 1.4.0 version (official release) of Amarok. It's the last version that had a working FLAC support, AFAIK.
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Tuesday, July 11th 2006, 5:02am

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Originally posted by jucato
I think this is a problem with xine-lib/libxine, and that the latest version of xine-lib (1.1.2 I think) fixes it.

In the meantime, if your distro has a way for you to do it, you can just use the 1.4.0 version (official release) of Amarok. It's the last version that had a working FLAC support, AFAIK.


Unfortunately, after installing the 1.4.0 packages from the Guru SuSE repository (1.4.0_2.0.2.guru.suse101@i686), Amarok doesn't even start. (the 1.4.1 packages do just fine, but won't play FLAC)

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Wednesday, July 12th 2006, 6:47pm

I'm running Suse 10.1 and experieced the same problem. A few days ago, I downloaded the new libxine 1.1.2 from http://xinehq.de/ and the sources files from http://amarok.kde.org and rebuilt both of them. Playing flac now works.

Building and installing the libxine 1.1.2 library alone was not sufficient. I also had to rebuild amaroK 1.4.1 with the libxine 1.1.2 development libraries in place.

Since then, I see that Packman has posted the libxine 1.1.2 RPMs. I would try installing these with with the Suse amaroK 1.4.1 backport distribution. If that does not work, I suggest either building amaroK 1.4.1 on your machine from source with the Packman libxine 1.1.2 development library or waiting until the problem is fixed.

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Wednesday, July 12th 2006, 9:52pm

Indeed! I update libxine to 1.12 from Packman and all works well. No reinstall of Amarok was needed. Thanks for the tip!

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Saturday, July 15th 2006, 4:43pm

Grrrrr

Unfortunately, installing all the 1.12 libs from Packman didn't work for me. On to Plan B - uninstalling every trace of Amarok and Xine and compiling sources.

The price we pay for efficiency... Yes, install all-in-one packages a la Windoze, and things do work, but avoiding the resulting bloat and sloth is the whole point of Linux for me :)

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Monday, July 17th 2006, 6:18am

Compiling the sources for the latest Xine and Amarok worked. Finally, success!

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Wednesday, January 10th 2007, 8:08am

downloaded build 53 from http://software.opensuse.org/download/KDE:/Backports and the message about "no audio channel" is gone.

But now it misses a demux plugin....

Strange is that mplayer now plays the audio stream, where it did not do it before ????

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This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "edwinboersma" (Jan 10th 2007, 8:16am)

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Wednesday, January 10th 2007, 1:26pm

amarok does not play the media itself, but relies on a soundengine, like xine, helix, gstreamer, etc.

if you can't play a stream because of a missing codec (e.g. missing demux plugin), you should install that codec for the soundengine that you use in amarok or choose another soundengine that can play the media stream.

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