Version: (using KDE KDE 3.5.0) Installed from: SuSE RPMs OS: Linux originaly thought this bug was dew to kalarm but further investigation leads me to 1 of 2 possible reasons (original bug report to kalarm http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116554) but it affects other applications using these sounds files for there notifications i went through the included kde sample ogg files that are included for system notification sounds the .wav files play normaly about 50% of the ogg files play and 50% eather give no sound or shortend snippits of the sound kde 3.5 rc1 suse 9.3 reason 1 is a bug in the ogg player reason 2 is that 50% of the ogg files included in the 3.5rc1 distribution are corrupt im just about to try and find a copy of the old ogg files included with kde3.4.3 to see if it is the later but have no idea if there have been any changes to the player that may cause this Dave hopes i found the right application for the bug this time :)
reason 3 (and the most likely) the SUSE RPMs are broken Please try upgrading the 3.5 release RPMs. Most likely the Ogg Vorbis libraries just weren't available when the RPMs were built, so they don't support Ogg.
Also depends on whether kdemultimedia was built with akode support (versions before akode-2.0rc1 wouldn't play many short ogg files).
suse rpms from 3.5.0 release / supplementary have been recompiled against 2.0rc1