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pygoscelis
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 Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2024 5:10 am Post subject: Kalarm in Plasma 6 |
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kde-apps/kalarm-24.05.2:6::gentoo has lost its ability to play mp3 files. It says "Unsupported audio format, or corrupt data" (and gives a warning sound, so sound by itself is working). It is not corrupt data, it's all mp3s and kde-apps/kalarm-23-whatever worked just fine with these file.
How can I troubleshoot this? |
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Banana
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asturm
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| Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2024 6:38 am Post subject: |
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| That version of kalarm is using media-libs/libcanberra for sound output. What are your use flag settings on that? |
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pygoscelis
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| Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2024 10:22 am Post subject: |
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| asturm wrote: | | That version of kalarm is using media-libs/libcanberra for sound output. What are your use flag settings on that? |
Hmm... alsa gtk3 pulseaudio udev -gnome -gstreamer -gtk2 -oss -sound -tdb
Edit: I added gstreamer and sound, still no dice. canberra-gtk-play also says data corrupt. Libcanberra is a binary package... |
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pygoscelis
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| Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2024 9:38 pm Post subject: |
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Here's the thing. libcanberra cannot play mp3 at all. It can play wav and ogg files only. It's all in the source code.
libcanberra's last change was 12 years ago. I'd say for a program that is supposed to play sound files it probably wasn't such a great idea to go with this library. It is designed to play sound theme sounds and perhaps it's great for that purpose.
Anyway I transcoded my alarm sounds to Ogg Vorbis and now I can wake up with the Colonel Bogey march played by the Royal Marines orchestra again. Happy days! |
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asturm
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| Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2024 9:40 pm Post subject: |
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| You'll be then thrilled to know that >=kalarm-24.08.0 was ported away to media-video/vlc for sound playback. |
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pygoscelis
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| Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2024 9:49 pm Post subject: |
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| asturm wrote: | | You'll be then thrilled to know that >=kalarm-24.08.0 was ported away to media-video/vlc for sound playback. |
I am! Thanks. |
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