Amarok can't play files with square brackets in path
Bug #317526 reported by
Bogdan Butnaru
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amarok |
Invalid
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Medium
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| amarok (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
| phonon-backends (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: amarok
Hello! Running up-to-date Jaunty, with Amarok 2:2.0.1.1-0ubuntu4.
I noticed Amarok refuses to play files whose paths contain any square bracket, i.e. '[' or ']'. Perhaps there are other characters not supported, too.
Amarok does add them to the collection when scanning, and it reads their tags correctly, it just doesn't play them. If I rename the files/folders so that there are no square brackets, it plays the files correctly.
Revision history for this message
| Lydia Pintscher (lydia-pintscher) wrote | #1 |
Revision history for this message
| Lydia Pintscher (lydia-pintscher) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in amarok: | |
| status: | New → Invalid |
| Changed in amarok: | |
| status: | Unknown → Invalid |
| Changed in phonon: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
Revision history for this message
| Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in phonon (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Confirmed → Fix Committed |
| affects: | phonon (Ubuntu) → phonon-backends (Ubuntu) |
Revision history for this message
| Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman) wrote | #4 |
| Changed in phonon-backends (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
| Changed in amarok: | |
| importance: | Unknown → Medium |
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This is a Phonon backend problem. You are most likely using GStreamer which is known to be buggy and not recommended by us. The Phonon devs know about the problem.
To work around it change your phononbackend to Xine in SystemSettings -> sound.