I edited the metadata of an album with songbird. After that i can play that album with songbird but not with amarok! What's happened? I don't know if it's interesting that the songs were trasformed from wma into mpe with a script

You edited the metadata or changed it from wma into a "mpe"?

//I don't even know what a mpe is.

First i trasformed wma files into mp3, then edited metadata with songbird. With amarok i hear strange sounds

Sounds like a bug of Songbird.

In the songbird get satisfaction forum, a topic and they said:                                           

I'm not sure.  It's strange that editing metadata would cause that.  So the music plays fine in Songbird, but not in Amarok?  I, personally, am not familiar with Amarok.  I would personally put a similar post in the Amarok forums 

You could ask them what tag library they use.

You could tell them that Amarok uses Xine to play, which in turn uses the very widespread MP3 libraries (libmad or ffmpeg depending on the setup).

Feel free to give them this forums URL so that we don't have to play the telephone game.

Wait so you never played the MP3 version of it in Amarok?

There's actually no reason to think Songbird is at fault at all is there?

Sounds like your conversion script is subpar.

when i play the mp3 version with amarok i hear strange sounds. with songbird it's all ok.


Here the script:

#!/bin/bash

current_directory=$( pwd )

#remove spaces
for i in *.wma; do mv "$i" `echo $i | tr ' ' '_'`; done

#remove uppercase
for i in *.[Ww][Mm][Aa]; do mv "$i" `echo $i | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`; done

#Rip with Mplayer / encode with LAME
for i in *.wma ; do mplayer -vo null -vc dummy -af resample=44100 -ao pcm -waveheader $i && lame -m s audiodump.wav -o $i; done

#convert file names
for i in *.wma; do mv "$i" "`basename "$i" .wma`.mp3"; done

rm audiodump.wav

Songbird point of view:

http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/top ... and_amarok

Just keep the files as .wma's

If you wanted to investigate further...
*you could first do a conversion without editing it in Songbird, to confirm that in fact Songbird has nothing to do with it.
*Listen to the .wav file to make sure it doesn't have the weird sounds. If it does, I guess you would want to approach mplayer.
*If it doesn't, encode it into a mp3 and try playing with xine-ui, the default xine client, to see if it still has the bug. if it doesn't and you only get the weird sounds in Amarok, then report back here
*if the xine-ui client has the same trouble playing as Amarok, report to the Xine project

ok tomorrow i'll try

Hi all,

I'm half way with a Python script importing Amarok album art, ratings and statistics, see intermediate results here:
  http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1866

If you like to contribute, especially on the part writing into the Songbird database, please join me at this URL. When this script is finished, also the reverse can be done, importing Songbird metadata into Amarok.

Regards,

Pander