Bug 185848

Summary:	can't play files containing special chars (umlauts)
Product:	[Applications] amarok	Reporter:	Sascha Jüngling <sjuengling>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Amarok Developers <amarok-bugs-dist>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	2.0.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Sascha Jüngling 2009-03-01 03:21:54 UTC

Version:           2.0.1 (using 4.2.00 (KDE 4.2.0), Gentoo)
Compiler:          i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.28-gentoo-r2

Any files which contain special characters (in my case tested with German Umlauts - äöüß) in either their file or pathname, won't be played by amarok. Amarok just won't do anything when starting them to play. This does not affect Umlauts in the ID3 tags.

Comment 1 Seb Ruiz 2009-03-01 03:48:11 UTC

Don't use the gstreamer backend, it's buggy. Use xine. Please, for the love of god, search for duplicates before submitting reports.

Comment 2 Sascha Jüngling 2009-03-01 04:08:11 UTC

Sorry that I didn't find any dupes, I searched on the bugtracker, forums and asked on IRC and couldn't find anything regarding this issue...

I am using xine (always was) and that bug occurs.

amarok(6292) Phonon::KdePlatformPlugin::createBackend: using backend:  "Xine"

Comment 3 Dan Meltzer 2009-03-01 04:22:43 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 172242 ***