[NTLUG:Discuss] Weird audio question

[Wayne Dahl]

Ralph wrote:
> Howdy,
>   It sounds like amarok and noatun need a plugin that handles flac and
> don't have one.  VLC has one compiled in.  I believe amarok, uses the
> xine libraries to play flac, but I don't know about noatun.  Some
> versions of the xine libraries had problems with flac files, but I think
> that was fixed before your version.
>   

Apparently not.  I have other .flac files that work just fine, Hotel 
California.flac, for example.  I'm listening to it right now.  Could it 
be the bitrate?  The bitrate on Roundabout is showing to be 1,213, the 
bitrate on Hotel California is showing to be 774, quite a difference.  
Is it maybe just that Amarok/Xine can't handle the higher bitrate?

>   To convert a flac file to a wave file, I would use a tool cleverly
> called flac.  Just type:
>   flac -d "Yes - Fragile - 01 - Roundabout.flac"
>  The quotes are needed because you carelessly allowed spaces in your
> file names.
>   

Yeah, that's the way they came to me.  I just haven't shortened the 
filenames yet...but I've never used flac...not the codec, the program.  
That's pretty cool and thanks for the suggestion.  However, K3b still 
thinks the .wav files it converts them to are .flac.  Not sure why.  Is 
it the metadata on the file?  I can't seem to find any references to 
.flac in the new .wav files, but K3b sure doesn't like them still.
> Good luck,
> Ralph
>
> On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 23:22 -0600, Wayne Dahl wrote:
>   
>> Hi all.
>>
>> OS - Kubuntu 8.04
>> HP DV1906US laptop
>> Amarok 1.4.9.1
>> KDE 3.5.10
>>
>> I have a question about some rather weird behavior when playing some 
>> .flac audio files.  I have 2 albums in .flac format that won't play 
>> properly in Amarok or Noatun or mplayer...but play just fine, although 
>> with lowered volume in VLC.  The songs seem to start ok in Amarok, but 
>>     
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