Amarok indexes my FLAC files just fine (though not, of course, my Monkey's Audio files), but it cannot play them back; it either just stalls out or gives me the "no audio channel" error.

I've tried converting a plain 'ol wav to FLAC using the latest version of FLAC and even tried converting it to an ogg-flac file.  No go.

I thought to try to change the engine Amarok uses for playback, but I get no other options than xine even though I have the amarok-engines package installed.  I remember being able to change engines with older versions of Amarok.  Is this something new?

Anyway, my questions are these:  is there ANY lossless format that Amarok can play back now?  Is there any way I can get FLAC working with Amarok?

And yes, I mean besides WAV files, smartasses    I need at least some compression.

FLAC works just fine with Amarok, can't remember a time when it didn't. It should be just a matter of compiling xine-lib with support for FLAC. On Gentoo that means setting the flac USE-flag. Other distributions should provide xine-lib packages as well, and I think they would have enabled support for all codecs by default.

Support for the gstreamer engine was dropped some time ago, don't know if it'll return. The xine engine works fine with everything and is certainly better than gstreamer was months ago.

Well, i did some reading, and it looks like it's a known bug with xine-lib 1.1.1, as mentioned in this thread:

http://amarok.kde.org/forum/index.php/t ... 040.0.html

The problem is that there doesn't seem to yet be a package for version 1.1.2 on Ubuntu, so I tried compiling it myself.  Now Amarok just crashes when it tries to play a FLAC file, though this is probably a result of something I did wrong in the compilation and installation process.

I guess I'll just have to live with no lossless support until a proper package is release or I find another option.  This sucks.

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showpost.ph ... stcount=17

A thousand thanks, Orion!

That package did the trick; I can listen to my FLAC files now, though ogg-flac still doesn' work.  But that's no big deal.

The only thing we need now is a lossless compression format we can seek with!

Thanks again.