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katapult package

katapult and amarok

Bug #64391 reported by Romain Despland on 2006-10-06

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #60136: Katapult doesn't work with Amarok >= 1.4.2. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	katapult (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

hello,

A great feature of katapult is not working in edgy and that's when you enter the name of a music file and press enter, amarok says something like "no valid input plugin..." and the file is not being played.

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Peter Liedler (peter-liedler) wrote on 2006-10-15:

error message Edit (11.5 KiB, image/png)

Happens on kubuntu dapper 6.06.1 with kde 3.5.5 and amarok 1.4.3

It seems, as if katapult delivers the wrong path of the file selected to amarok. The file path begins with a dot and continues with /user

e.g.: ./user/rest_of_path

I think it should be "~/rest of path" od "/home/user/rest_of_path"

See screenshot

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Peter Liedler (peter-liedler) wrote on 2006-10-15:

Since in katapult source code only a sql query for the path is performed, I am not sure if this correction is a thing of katapult...

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Romain Despland (romaindespland) wrote on 2006-10-15:

I don't really know much about programming and stuff but this came on planet ubuntu :

http://www.sourceguru.net/archives/42

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Rich Johnson (nixternal) wrote on 2006-10-15:

I can confirm this with Edgy, KDE 3.5.5
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Error Loading Media
No suitable input plugin. This often means that the url's protocol is not supported. Network failures are other possible causes.
./nixternal/MyMusic/Faith Hill - Fireflies - 01 - Sunshine & Summertime.mp3

Changed in katapult:
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	Unconfirmed → Confirmed

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Romain Despland (romaindespland) wrote on 2006-10-23:

error window Edit (13.0 KiB, image/png)

There was an update today and I hoped it would be the fix but it's not the case. It did change the error message though, now it's saying that the music file doesn't exist. It's seems that /home is missing in the address.

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Peter Liedler (peter-liedler) wrote on 2006-10-24:

From what I have learned is that the amarok team changed the way of storing the file path in the database.
They made this to implement the usb and ipod etc. media in a better way.
For me it seems that enhancing the database query for the device (path is stored relatively to the root fs) one could make a function to complete the path. Simply adding the home directory does'nt use anything.
Seems that you, too, have made a separate partition for your home directory (which makes sense).