Ok, ive almost found out exactly whats going on here and what needs to be done to fix this bug for the most part.
On a clean feisty install, I hovered over audio files and they did not play, BUT they do show a bubble, they worked after I installed mpg321 for .mp3, sox for .wav and vorbis-tools + sox for ogg files, (yes .ogg does need both vorbis-tool and sox to work on mouse-over.) note: to anyone trying this, please go to nautilus, edit, preferences, then in the preview tab, set "preview sound files" to "always" or most long audio files like mp3s wont play on mouse-over. Now enter gutsy problem, I did a fresh format for gutsy, still no sound previews like on feisty's default install but there is one big difference here, there is also no bubble popup on audio files on mouse- over. This is significant because if I install all those packages as mentioned above to play audio previews, it still doesnt play them because there seems to be nothing kicking in the preview mechanism at all, (no bubble no sound.) I then installed pulseaudio and pulseaudio- esound-compat just like jean azzopardi said to.... it works if you have both the files from above AND pulse installed. Here is the real kicker that gave the problem away though. I purge uninstalled pulseaudio and pulseaudio-esound-compat but the sound previewing still works, I was told on #ubunut+1: "if I had to guess; I think that installing it probably creates a symlink somewhere to the necessary libs for nautilus, and uninstalling doesn't delete the symlink." So basically all that needs to be done is for the devs to fix whatever pulseaudio fixes on its own and include those files from above in the default packages. -- mpg123 and mpg321 won't play audio preview in Nautilus (Gutsy) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/125739 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
