Bug 252510

Summary:	Please add support for matroska audio (mka) files
Product:	[Applications] amarok	Reporter:	mark
Component:	Metadata Editing and Reading	Assignee:	Amarok Bugs <amarok-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	123kash, matej, thomas.pasch, tuomas
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	2.3.2
Target Milestone:	2.4.0
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description mark 2010-09-27 09:44:07 UTC

Version:           2.3.2 (using KDE 4.5.1) 
OS:                Linux

All backends for amarok can play matroska audio, but amarok won't play them or list them in the playlist

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Try to open a mka file with amarok. If you don't have one, convert a mp3 file to mka with mmg or mkvmerge from mkvtoolnix.

Actual Results:  
The file cannot be dragged in the playlist, thus will not play.

Expected Results:  
The file should be inserted into the playlist and be playable by amarok like the other files supported by amarok

Comment 1 Matěj Laitl 2013-04-09 14:51:00 UTC

I Amarok able to show metadata (such as artist or length) of such .mka files?

Comment 2 Matěj Laitl 2013-04-09 15:47:04 UTC

*** Bug 317316 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Myriam Schweingruber 2013-06-18 11:28:52 UTC

Still waiting for feedback...

Comment 4 mark 2013-06-18 12:08:01 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> Still waiting for feedback...

I did not use amarok for about 3 years because it's performance on internet filesystem mounts is terrible (10 Minutes starting time because auf playlist/filesystem scanning).
But as the mka files could not be dragged into the playlist window at that time, Amarok was not able to show metadata either or do anything else with these files; what cannot be seen cannot be used, obviously.
I cannot say how mka files are handled today, as three years is a long time, but you can easily try it out yourself (use mkvtoolnix from http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/ to convert one mp3 to mka, try to open and play it with Amarok).
If they work like all other audiofiles, this bug can be closed.

Comment 5 Myriam Schweingruber 2013-06-18 18:07:34 UTC

Thank you for the feedback.

Comment 6 Tuomas Nurmi 2024-03-24 07:15:28 UTC

Tested on 2.9.71. They are not recognized as supported by Amarok since TagLib does not support .mka files; a wishlist item on TagLib issue tracker is available at https://github.com/taglib/taglib/issues/387 . 
As no tags can be read, they cannot be included in collection either. One can drag them to playlist and play them, though.

Should TagLib receive .mka support one day, implementing support in Amarok would be relatively straightforward. Without that, will not be supported.