Bug 190576

Version:           2 (using KDE 4.2.2)
Compiler:          cc
OS:                Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.28-11-generic
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

On a fresh install of Ubuntu, I tried playing a shoutcast stream. The title would show up for the info of the song playing, but no sound. So I then spent 15 minutes searching and trying to figure out how to change the audio server amarok 2 uses (the last release of amarok had a lot more configuration options), and googling and looking through bug reports.(BTW I would've realized it was the ffmpeg missing to begin with if the song info did not display but I guess I just assumed) I then tried playing an mp3 in case it just wasn't playing streams and I noticed an output in the terminal in which I was running amarok:

TagLib: MPEG::Header::parse() -- Invalid sample rate.

So then I realized I hadn't installed libxine1 and it worked fine.

You would think that there would be an error in the terminal about not having ffmpeg...

Would it be possible to put at least some kind of codec error somewhere in the application? Almost all other audio players I have used give some kind of error when codecs are not installed, not to mention one made by M$