Re: [gentoo-user] Mpd doesn't play ogg files

[Damian <damian.only@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Willie Wong <wwong@princeton.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 11:37:54PM +0100, Penguin Lover Damian squawked:
>> > Unless I'm mistaken, mpd uses gstreamer, right? So, have you checked that
>> > you have gst-plugins-ogg emerged?
>> So, this would imply a buggy ebuild?
>
> Yes, you are mistaken. mpd does not need to use gstreamer.
>
> To the OP, I don't think it can be strictly a versions issue. I run
> mpd-0.13.2 on my desktop, and ogg-vorbis (pretty much my entire music
> collection is in this format) plays just fine. On my laptop I use
> 0.14.2, it is stable enough (and has some nice features), so you can
> go ahead a try it if you wish.
I uploaded this album to my mp4 player, and it hung when I tried to
play it. So there may be something wrong with the encoding. The
strange thing is that mplayer plays it just fine.

I'll try to make some time to translate some mp3 file to ogg and see
what happens.

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