On Thu, 3 May 2007, Lars Luthman wrote: > On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 11:55 +0100, J M Needham wrote: > > Hi, > > > > If this is inappropriate for this list then let me know. Basically > > anything running using xine as a backend, as well as xmms, only plays > > some of my flac files. Many it won't play. I've just installed the patch > > libxine-main1_1.1.1+ubuntu2-7.2+patch1_i386.deb but to do it I had to > > uninstall libexine1 first, then reinstall everything else (by that I mean > > amarok and kmplayer) but that also installed libxine1 as well, but I don't > > know if that has incorporated the patch or just overwritten it. > > > > Amarok still does not play many of my flacs. Juk however does play _all my > > flacs, and I've tried to find out what it's using but I've been unable to. > > Due to personal preferance I dislike juk. > > > > There are therefore 2 things going on here. What's the difference between > > the flac files that xine-backended stuff can play and those it can't, and > > why can juk play them and why can't xine? And have I installed thepatch > > adn how can I tell? > > > > Apologies if this is all dumbass. Tell me which fm to rt if I need to. > > Are the "unplayable" FLACs very short? I've had problems playing very > short FLAC files in mplayer, but I don't know how to fix that either. > They are "normal" song length, between 3 and 5 minutes. All of the songs are from particular albums; for example the flac files for Corey Russell's Days of Noah play, but none off Ancient Paths. None of my Living Sacrifice plays, but all Misty Edwards. All of them are flac. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
