Bug 115703

Summary: Amarok doesn't play MP3 files in Amarok
Product: [Unmaintained] kmail Reporter: effco <frederic>
Component: generalAssignee: kdepim bugs <pim-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
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Description effco 2005-11-04 21:31:49 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.4.2)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

In KMail, I've preselected Amarok as my default player for MP3 files.

Whatever the MP3 file attached to an email, if I click on it, Amarok display it in its playlist but the file doesn't play automatically, even if I select it in the playlist and click on "Play".

The error message in Amarok is "The local file doesn't exist".

I first suspected MP3 filenames containing blanks or special character  so I renamed an MP3 file to test.mp3 and created an email in KMail. I attached test.mp3 to the email and saved the email as "Draft".

Then I closed KMail, reopen it, opened the draft email and tried to play the attached test.mp3 file, with no more luck. :-/

the error log from Amarok gives :
TagLib: Could not open file /tmp/kde-fred/test.mp3_[Zru96b].mp3
Comment 1 Thiago Macieira 2005-11-04 22:13:41 UTC 
The problem is that, when you start $KDEDIR/bin/amarok, it exits soon after. (because it forks) When amarok exits, KMail erases the attachment.

I don't know if this can be fixed.
Comment 2 effco 2005-11-06 21:48:48 UTC 
Is there a special reason why Amarok exits soon after (forks) ?
Comment 3 Thomas McGuire 2007-07-17 15:00:32 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 130709 ***