I'm using Kubuntu 9.10 and was suffering from the same problem, except that all speex 1.1.12 encoded files I tried (including the one in example-content) didn't work either.
I did some investigation and found that other phonon based players (such as Dragon Player) could play speex files propperly, so the problem must be in Amarok and not further down the stack. I tried to read the Amarok source code to find out what it did wrong, but I never managed to figured it out. I did, however, find a workaround: By default Ubuntu 9.10 will assign the non-standard mime type audio/x-speex+ogg to Speex files, rather than the standard mime type audio/ogg. As audio/x-speex+ogg is defined to be a sub-class of audio/ogg there is nothing wrong with this. However, whatever Amarok is doing wrong, it is only doing it for audio/x-speex+ogg, so if you present speex files as audio/ogg to Amarok it will gladly hand them over to phonon, and the files will work just fine, both playing them and reading any tags. What I did to get this to work was edit /usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml as root, find the <mime- type type="audio/x-speex+ogg"> element and comment it out. I then had to update all generated files (sudo -i update-mime-database /usr/share/mime ; sudo -i kbuildsycoca4 --global --noincremental ; kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental) and re-start Amarok. Hope this workaround helps everyone else having this problem. Note that you will probably have to repeat this procedure every time you upgrade the shared-mime-info package. -- Can't open .spx speex files in Amarok https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/333454 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to amarok in ubuntu. -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-b...@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
