[gentoo-user] Amarok won't play my mp3's anymore

[gentoo-user] Amarok won't play my mp3's anymore

[Dan Johansson]

After doing an emerge --update world today and rebooting my compi Amarok will 
not play my mp3's anymore. I get the following error message "Too many errors 
encountered in playlist. Playback has stopped." I have tried to delete ~/.xine 
as suggested after a google search on the error string.

If I start Amarok with the --debug flag I see the following output:
--------------------------------------------------8<-------------------------------------
amarok:   [EngineController] [WARNING!] Phonon failed to play this URL. Error:  
"17:24:15: input_file: File not found: 
>file:///var/Music/mp3/Wilmer%20X/Den%20bl%C3%83%C2%A5%20v%C3%83%C2%A4gen%20hem%20-%20En%20samling/06%20-%20Teddys%20rum.mp3<                                                                                            
"
--------------------------------------------------8<-------------------------------------

The file is there:
$ ll /var/Music/mp3/Wilmer\ X/Den\ blå\ vägen\ hem\ -\ En\ samling/06\ -\ 
Teddys\ rum.mp3
-rwxr--r-- 1 dan users 5645291 Jul  2  2002 /var/Music/mp3/Wilmer X/Den bl?? 
v??gen hem - En samling/06 - Teddys rum.mp3

The only thing I can see that was upgraded during the update wit relation to 
sound is "media-sound:phonon" (4.3.50_pre20090520 -> 4.3.80-r1)

Any suggestions?
-- 
Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu>
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Re: [gentoo-user] Amarok won't play my mp3's anymore

[Stroller]

On 20 Feb 2010, at 16:45, Dan Johansson wrote:
> ...
> If I start Amarok with the --debug flag I see the following output:
> --------------------------------------------------8
> <-------------------------------------
> amarok:   [EngineController] [WARNING!] Phonon failed to play this  
> URL. Error:
> "17:24:15: input_file: File not found:
>> file:///var/Music/mp3/Wilmer%20X/Den%20bl%C3%83%C2%A5%20v%C3%83%C2%A4gen%20hem%20-%20En%20samling/06%20-%20Teddys%20rum.mp3 
>> <
> "
> --------------------------------------------------8 
> <-------------------------------------
>
> The file is there:
> $ ll /var/Music/mp3/Wilmer\ X/Den\ blå\ vägen\ hem\ -\ En\ samling/ 
> 06\ -\
> Teddys\ rum.mp3
> -rwxr--r-- 1 dan users 5645291 Jul  2  2002 /var/Music/mp3/Wilmer X/ 
> Den bl??
> v??gen hem - En samling/06 - Teddys rum.mp3

Have you even tried copying this file to the current working directory  
and naming it with no non-English characters?

Try a foo.mp3 file with no tags. Does it work?

Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] Amarok won't play my mp3's anymore

[Frank Steinmetzger]

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Am Samstag, 20. Februar 2010 schrieb Dan Johansson:
> After doing an emerge --update world today and rebooting my compi Amarok
> will not play my mp3's anymore. I get the following error message "Too many
> errors encountered in playlist. Playback has stopped." I have tried to
> delete ~/.xine as suggested after a google search on the error string.
>
> If I start Amarok with the --debug flag I see the following output:
> --------------------------------------------------8<-----------------------
>-------------- amarok:   [EngineController] [WARNING!] Phonon failed to play
> this URL. Error:
>
> "17:24:15: input_file: File not found:
> >file:///var/Music/mp3/Wilmer%20X/Den%20bl%C3%83%C2%A5%20v%C3%83%C2%A4gen%2
> >0hem%20-%20En%20samling/06%20-%20Teddys%20rum.mp3<
>
> "
> --------------------------------------------------8<-----------------------
>--------------
>
> The file is there:
> $ ll /var/Music/mp3/Wilmer\ X/Den\ blå\ vägen\ hem\ -\ En\ samling/06\ -\
> Teddys\ rum.mp3
> -rwxr--r-- 1 dan users 5645291 Jul  2  2002 /var/Music/mp3/Wilmer X/Den
> bl?? v??gen hem - En samling/06 - Teddys rum.mp3
>
> The only thing I can see that was upgraded during the update wit relation
> to sound is "media-sound:phonon" (4.3.50_pre20090520 -> 4.3.80-r1)
>
> Any suggestions?

In recent upgrades (though I switched to the GIT version a while ago), it 
helped to rescan the collection. You could try this. Or perhaps it is an 
enconding issue. There are two ?? in your ll output, and the encoded version 
shows four characters for your å, which should only be two in utf-8. So it is 
encoding the two unicode octets again in iso.
-- 
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I guess irony can be pretty ironic sometimes.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Amarok won't play my mp3's anymore

[Dan Johansson]

On Saturday 20 February 2010 18.57:20 Stroller wrote:
> On 20 Feb 2010, at 16:45, Dan Johansson wrote:
> > ...
> > If I start Amarok with the --debug flag I see the following output:
> > --------------------------------------------------8
> > <-------------------------------------
> > amarok:   [EngineController] [WARNING!] Phonon failed to play this
> > URL. Error:
> >
> > "17:24:15: input_file: File not found:
> >> file:///var/Music/mp3/Wilmer%20X/Den%20bl%C3%83%C2%A5%20v%C3%83%C2%A4gen
> >>%20hem%20-%20En%20samling/06%20-%20Teddys%20rum.mp3 <
> >
> > "
> > --------------------------------------------------8
> > <-------------------------------------
> >
> > The file is there:
> > $ ll /var/Music/mp3/Wilmer\ X/Den\ blå\ vägen\ hem\ -\ En\ samling/
> > 06\ -\
> > Teddys\ rum.mp3
> > -rwxr--r-- 1 dan users 5645291 Jul  2  2002 /var/Music/mp3/Wilmer X/
> > Den bl??
> > v??gen hem - En samling/06 - Teddys rum.mp3
> 
> Have you even tried copying this file to the current working directory
> and naming it with no non-English characters?
> 
> Try a foo.mp3 file with no tags. Does it work?
Playing a mp3-file containing no non-ascii characters works OK, but as soon as 
Amarok tries to play a file containing UTF8 characters it fails. I have found 
the following KDE bug https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198008 which is the 
same problem as I have. I am now "playing" with convmv to see if changing the 
encoding to/from UTF8 changes anything.

-- 
Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu>
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