I was just wandering, is there any way to get amaroK to play .mpc (musepack) media? if not, are there any plans to add support for it?

thank you in advance.

I'll second that, it would be nice..

Another one for musepack

amaroK plays my mpc files just fine - using the artsd engine. I can also edit tags on Musepack files - amaroK rocks!

In fact the artsd engine can read musepack files but you need first to install "akode" which is an arts plugin.

For now I can read musepack files (arts engine) with amarok but I cannot read or edit tags on Musepack files (APE tags I think).

Quimbaya : How do you read/edit tags on musepack files ? Any other arts plugins ? What's your linux distro ?

A last question : Can you read "real" musepack tags (APE tags) with amarok or just id3 tags ?

I just found the answer : I need to use taglib 1.3 to read APE tags (musepack tags).

I am using SuSE 8.2 and KDE 3.3. For the most part of the last year, xmms with the mpc plugin was my music player of choice. After upgrading to KDE 3.3 I switched to Noatun, and two weeks ago I compiled amaroK from source and will stick with it, as I like its interface and love its features.

I have always encoded all music I have wav or ape files for with mppencode, but I never have had any use for tags until I started using amaroK. Now, precise tags help with organizing the collections, and I am still learning about how to do that best. I don't use any special tagging programs, just amaroK's 'view-edit meta information' function. So you are probably right, those aren't 'true' mpc APE tags, but they work for what I intend them to work.

BTW, I didn't have to install no special mpc plugin for arts. I have installed the newest arts rpm files from KDE 3.3 for my distro, and mpc was supported 'out of the box'. I compiled and installed GStreamer as well, but couldn't get the backend to work with amaroK. Anyway, it doesn't support playback of Musepack files, nor does the xine backend, so I will stay with arts for now.

OK. In my distribution(debian sid) arts must be an older version.

I\'d prefer gstream to support mpc files. Arts isn\'t my first choice for an engine. Looks like we\'d need to yell at the devs of gstreamer to mpc support...

No. I won\'t use arts. Arts sucks.

If you mean the APE tags from Monkey Audio: they don\'t work. (even with the newest taglib, I have not got them to work)

Btw: Gstreamer should be able to play musepack, if you have compiled the needed plugin. I do not have the needed libraries installed, though. Copy and paste of the ./configure from gst-plugins 0.8.6:

[code:1]configure: ***
configure: *** checking plugin: musepack ***
configure: ***
checking mpc_dec.h usability... no
checking mpc_dec.h presence... no
checking for mpc_dec.h... no
configure: *** These plugins will not be built: musepack
[/code:1]

Post edited by: Alanceil, at: 2005/01/03 02:27

gentoo users can use this: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72803

Portage is still at 0.8.5. The bug report has the new gst-plugin-musepack ebuild.

gentoo users can use this: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72803

Portage is still at 0.8.5. The bug report has the new gst-plugin-musepack ebuild.