Summary: | JJ: Better user feedback (error messages) in Amarok when transcoding from CD is not working due to lame not being installed | ||
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Product: | [Applications] amarok | Reporter: | Philippe Bernery <pb.mosca> |
Component: | Collections/CD | Assignee: | Amarok Developers <amarok-bugs-dist> |
Status: | REOPENED --- | ||
Severity: | task | CC: | abhiin1947, marcioapf, matej, teo |
Priority: | LO | Keywords: | junior-jobs |
Version: | 2.6.0 | ||
Target Milestone: | 2.8 | ||
Platform: | Ubuntu | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: |
Description
Philippe Bernery
2012-12-08 10:00:02 UTC
This very much depends on the distribution, AFAIK the kubuntu-restricted-extras package you should install does include lame. It is up to the distribution to suggest the correct package to install. I agree about the package suggestion. However I believe that Amarok should display an error or information message when it fails at transcoding the Audio CD to MP3, or any other codecs, because the codec is not installed. Currently, it stops silently and there is no way to know why (or I did not find one). You don't understand: this is a packaging error on the Kubuntu side, as it should suggest to install kubuntu-restricted-extras when you miss the codecs, if it didn't then they did something wrong. Ok, I think I get your point. Thanks for pointing me out the kubuntu-restricted-extras package (it was not installed indeed). I'm making this an junior job (about better error reporting) suitable for Amarok developer newcomers, students wanting to participate in GSoC. (to show they can solve bugs in code) etc... Newcomers: feel free to contact me by e-mail or ping strohel on #amarok IRC, I can get you started. @Matej, could you specify a little more what you errors deserve better reporting? (In reply to comment #6) > @Matej, could you specify a little more what you errors deserve better > reporting? Well, the error message should tell the reason why encoding is not working, e.g. what is missing anyone working on this? if not, can i? (In reply to comment #8) > anyone working on this? if not, can i? Sure, no need to ask for permission. Just try to solve this and submit a review request to http://reviewboard.kde.org/ once you think your patch is okay. It is also usual to put a link to the review request to the bug. (In reply to Abhinandan from comment #10) > patch : https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/110150/ What happened to this? |