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amarok package

Why cant I transfer Ogg to a Generic Audio Player?

Asked by AnAx

I've read other topics here about converting Ogg or Flac to mp3 in order to transfer. My Media player will play Ogg files so I do not want to convert them. Is it possible to just transfer the Ogg files? My MP3's transfer no problem. I have told Amarok that it is a Generic audio Player. It seems like Amarok has been programed to only allow MP3's to transfer within its Mobile device settings. If it matters I am trying to transfer them to a 2GB SD card through a card reader as well as through the Media Player itself (It's a ZVUE 260) Any help would be appreciated.

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Olivier (olivier-lacroix) said : 		#1

Hi !

I guess that you can just open your file browser and copy&paste the files.

No idea why amarok fails in doing that.

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Olivier (olivier-lacroix) said : 		#2

In amarok, open the device manager tab.

on the upper right corner of the tab, there is a button configure : verify that the reencoding property is unchecked for your device

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Best casfindad (caseyfmail-linux) said : 		#3

This is a bug. You need to manually edit .kde/share/config/amarokrc with gedit, kate, kwrite, etc. (I recommend saving the original file as "amarokrc-bak" in case you mess up. Find the [MediaDevice...] section and manually add the filetypes you wish your device to use next to "supportedFiletypes=mp3". Here is how the line reads in my new file: "supportedFiletypes=ogg, flac, mp3, wma". (No quotes)

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AnAx (j-watson) said : 		#4

Thanks so mush Casey, that did it!

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Harald Sitter (apachelogger) said : 		#5

You can install Amarok 1.4.8 from gutsy-backports, which should fix this issue.