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
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!