Bug 172414 - Amarok cannot play files with square brackets [ ] in name
Summary: Amarok cannot play files with square brackets [ ] in name
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 173789
Alias: None
Product: phonon-backend-gstreamer
Classification: Frameworks and Libraries
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Compiled Sources Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Amarok Developers
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: 172664 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2008-10-08 20:58 UTC by Radoslaw Szkodzinski
Modified: 2011-04-27 21:14 UTC (History)
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Description Radoslaw Szkodzinski 2008-10-08 20:58:02 UTC 
Version:           2.0-SVN Oct 7 2008 (using Devel)
Compiler:          gcc (Gentoo 4.3.1-r1 p1.1) 4.3.1  ~x86 CXXFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -mfpmath=sse -fvisibility-inlines-hidden"
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Compiled sources

Amarok 2 cannot play files which have filenames with [] in them. Example:
/mnt/store/music/Clutch/Clutch - Pure Rock Fury [2001] {By Morn}/Clutch - Pure Rock Fury [2001]/Clutch - Pure Rock Fury - 02 - Pure Rock Fury.mp3

It stops playback on such files. I suspect some missing string escape before passing to the shell, thus qualifying as a security bug too.
Comment 1 Radoslaw Szkodzinski 2008-10-10 02:11:13 UTC 
Happens only with gstreamer Phonon backend.
Comment 2 Mark Kretschmann 2008-10-12 14:37:56 UTC 
*** Bug 172664 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Matthias 2009-02-25 21:09:50 UTC 
I have the same problem over here, but with both GStreamer and Xine backend. It is not restricted to AmaroK 2.0.1 but will also happen with other apps relying on Phonon (such as Dragon Player).

Other characters causing AmaroK to stop playing are e.g. German Umlauts
Comment 4 Mark Kretschmann 2009-02-27 17:33:11 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 173789 ***
Comment 5 Myriam Schweingruber 2011-04-27 21:14:44 UTC 
reassigning to the new bugzilla product for better bug tracing of the various backends. Sorry for the noise.