my googling suggests the following: 1, ubuntu does not support mp3 "out of the box" because it is an encumbered format. That may be why amarok does not support mp3's in ubuntu.
2, I found a suggestion that wma does not get found because it does not support taglib, here it is in full: "Second, IMO amaroK will not find wmas as they are not supported by taglib (not sure if this is still true). But you can insert them manually from the "Files" Tab to your playlist." http://amarok.kde.org/component/option,com_simpleboard/Itemid,57/func,view/id,6651/catid,9/ you will, of course need the right codec to play wma, at a guess (confirmed by that link) it would be win32codecs - which i assume you have installed. Finally you will note that amarok has a number of USE flags, which affect what support is compiled in (gentoo here of course), check them out with : equery uses amarok If you want to change them edit the file /etc/portage/packages.use accordingly and re-emerge it. On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 22:03 +0200, Robert Himmelmann wrote: > Greetings, > > I use amarok to play music. With the xine-plugin I can play most kinds > of media (Actions -> Play Media). Unfortunately when amarok scans my > collection it only recognizes some of the media types xine can play. > Under Gentoo it leaves wma out and under Ubuntu mp3 which is even worse. > I could convert my whole collection to ogg-vorbis but my mp3-player > plays only, as the name implies mp3. I am also short of hard disk space > which is not unusual with five OSs on one laptop, so keeping everything > twice is also not an option. I tried googling for it and had a look at > some configuration file but could not find anything. Is there any way to > correct this problem? > > Happy Hacking, > Robert Himmelmann -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
