Another KDE + OGG problem post [Solved]

[jdgill0]

OK, I have read several posts on KDE not playing OGG files. I have tried everything mentioned to no avail.

First let me say that my sound WAS working fine until I unmerged gnome and xfce4 from my system. I am aware that I could have unmerged something that was needed, but I can find no hint as to that happening or what that might have been. An "emerge -puD world" shows I am up to date. I have also since re-emerged ALL my KDE ebuilds, and not one single error.

Now I can not play OGG files within KDE, and hence have no system notifications because of that. I can play wav, mpg, etc. I have tried re-emerging flac (even emerging the Masked version), have added USE=xmms. I have recompiled ALL my KDE 3.4 ebuilds, and yes I have USE=oggvorbis. I also have USE = arts and alsa.

I have logged out of and back into KDE to help ensure any changes I did would be picked up by KDE.

I read a post were someone just switched the KDE player to alsaplayer within KDE's control center. I would try that, but I am having ZERO luck getting alsaplayer to emerge. I get an error saying it could not find "sndfile.h", both the latest stable version and the ~86 version. I have searched the forums on this and did not find anything, although I could have missed in my search.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks.
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[jdgill0]

Well it seems I finally solved my problem. Removing gnome and xfce4 created a bit of a mess with various libs, etc being left on the system and hence being broken depends. One of the "broken" apps was kde-base/akode. After recompiling it, I can now play ogg files again.
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