Tom, I am experiencing a similar problem. I am using Clementine 1.3.1. My audio extractor software is Freac, and I have it set to name the files with an .oga extension so that my OS file type association knows which software to use to play the audio files. When I try to drag and drop these .oga files into a playlist in Clementine, they simply won't transfer or add to the list. However, if I rename the file extensions from .oga to .ogg, the files will drag and drop just fine and will play well too. I'm using a -2 vorbis quality to save space and it sounds very good to me. Maybe a simple rename might help you.
Some background on the Ogg format family is needed. You mention ogg in your comment, but you don't clarify whether you are referencing the exact file extension or the audio format in general. When I first started using Ogg Vorbis, the only extension available was .ogg. Then Ogg Theora came around for encoding videos. This naturally caused confusion because many of those files were also named with an .ogg extension. Then some extractor and converter software started differentiating between the two distinct formats with an .oga extension for Ogg Vorbis audio and an .ogv extension for Ogg Theora video (which uses Ogg Vorbis for the audio streams). However, there weren't many Ogg Theora videos out there and even fewer Ogg Theora video players. Mix this haphazard development beginning with the user expectation that .ogv might naturally mean "*OG*g *V*orbis" instead of the intended "*OG*g *V*ideo", and you have an environment where nobody knows which file goes with which player, even if they even have the player or even know what an Ogg is. The Clementine software developers are either unaware of the .oga and .ogv extensions or have chosen to presume that not many people name their Ogg Vorbis files with the .oga extension and thus support only the original .ogg file extension. Perhaps they will add support for the .oga and the .ogg extension in future versions. Since Ogg Vorbis was originally an audio format, .ogg and .oga should be supported as audio formats. Since Ogg Theora came after Ogg Vorbis, only the .ogv extension should be supported as a video format. Anyone with .ogg Theora files should bear the burden of renaming since the oversight is due to the later arrival of Ogg Theora. On Wednesday, February 27, 2013 at 9:31:06 PM UTC-5, Tom Burgess wrote: > > I have used Clementine to transcoded two files into ogg vorbis but neither > of them will play back. Both files will play in Bangarang so I know they > are good. I'm a recent convert to Linux (I'm using Chakra, KDE4) and would > like to start using ogg as much as possible and Clementine is my preffered > player. Any ideas why this might be happening? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clementine Music Player" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
