amarok crashes on loading real audio files

Bug #238185 reported by Waleed Hamra
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
amarok (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: amarok

i have many files in the real audio format (.rm), i used to play these files fine in VLC. back then i was new to linux and didn't know much about plugins and codecs and such stuff to get amarok to play them. so now, i decided to give amarok a try. i added the medibuntu repos, and installed w32codecs, and the amarok found in that repo too. the problem happens when i load my m3u playist, amarok crashes and it automatically opens thunderbird to send a crash report. if i go to the open media button in amarok, and select the files i want, i get a "multiple background-tasks running" note in the bottom status bar, and it hangs there for ever, and these tasks are all "populating playist (preparing)".

im using kubuntu hardy 32-bit
Intel D102GGC2 mother board (ATI chipset)
1.5 Gb RAM
3.0 GHz CPU with HT
nVidia GeForce 7300LE (256 Mb)
built-in ATI HD audio controller

Revision history for this message
Waleed Hamra (w-hamra1987) wrote :
Revision history for this message
Waleed Hamra (w-hamra1987) wrote :
Revision history for this message
Waleed Hamra (w-hamra1987) wrote :

sorry for posting so fast, i tried running amarokapp in konsole to see what messages it's giving, and this time i marked my music folder as part of the collection, and let amarok scan it, it added 32 files from the 43 files in it. and in konsole said "amarok: ERROR: translation of "Edit Track &Information..." doesn't contain 2 different plural forms as expected", and a lot of "ERROR reading METADATA", so this can be a problem with the metadata of some files.
but seriously, a corrupt metadata can crash the program? the file is playing fine in real player on windows and in VLC on linux!

Revision history for this message
Waleed Hamra (w-hamra1987) wrote :

sorry for posting so fast, i tried running amarokapp in konsole to see what messages it's giving, and this time i marked my music folder as part of the collection, and let amarok scan it, it added 32 files from the 43 files in it. and in konsole said "amarok: ERROR: translation of "Edit Track &Information..." doesn't contain 2 different plural forms as expected", and a lot of "ERROR reading METADATA", so this can be a problem with the metadata of some files.
but seriously, a corrupt metadata can crash the program? the file is playing fine in real player on windows and in VLC on linux!
sorry for repeating the attachement but firefox is automatically filling the attachement field

Revision history for this message
Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman) wrote :

Is this still a problem in Amarok 2?

Changed in amarok (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
Revision history for this message
Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman) wrote :

Most likely fixed in Amarok 2.

Changed in amarok (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Fix Released
To post a comment you must log in.
This report contains Public information  
Everyone can see this information.

Other bug subscribers

Remote bug watches

Bug watches keep track of this bug in other bug trackers.