Linux for your taste (sorry Naw :D) (17 Viewers)

[Rami]

so what? Bahrain's got one too, you know

I keed, I keed

For the three linux users??

 

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[JCK]

So, why in amaroK if I am to change an ID3 tag, it tells me that it cannot write on file?

 

[Martin]

Is the file on a vfat/ntfs volume mounted read only? Is it owned by you?

 

[JCK]

The files are on an ext3 partition that is mounted and it is owned by me.

 

[Martin]

Is the file in question owned by you? Mounting vfat/ntfs with uid maps all files to a specific user, whereas ext3 has user permissions per file.

 

[JCK]

Yes, it is owned by me.

 

[Rami]

Hehe, this is creepy, been facing the same problem right now.

I believe that some file formats one cannot edit via amarok (in my case m4a). Editing m4a tags is disabled in amarok. One could enable them, but editted files won't work on Ipod's.

Or at least thats what I understood from my research...

 

[Martin]

Yeah, that might be it. Amarok also doesn't love wma (who would anyway).

 

[JCK]

The files in my case are .mp3

 

[Rami]

Yeah, that might be it. Amarok also doesn't love wma (who would anyway).

I read that comment a lot when trying to figure it out, but why is wma hated?

 

[V]

I read that comment a lot when trying to figure it out, but why is wma hated?

.wma= WINDOWS media audio

 

[Martin]

I read that comment a lot when trying to figure it out, but why is wma hated?

wma - windows media audio

While being a decent format with respect to compression vs quality, as with all Microsoft 'standards', it's a closed standard. And patented possibly. So even if you know how to play wma, you can't distribute that code legally.

 

[Rami]

.wma= WINDOWS media audio

Not really a reason Windows is not hated because of its name.

 

[V]

you all make it sound like it's not big deal, but i am damn proud we got our own official mirror. and bahrain can shove it up their asses.

 

[Chxta]

Let's give credit where it's due. The WMA has the best compression as far as I know (even better than ogg at the same bit rate and quality) so all my stored music is in that format. Just install your Win32 codecs and you're up and runnng...

 

[V]

personally i prefer FLAC. i always download an album in .mp3, then if i really like it i find a losless version. true, it requires lots of space but the difference in quality is more than obvious.

 

[Chxta]

In the meantime (Martin I hope you're listening) anyone knows how to configure KDE to automatically detect WiFi networks?

 

[Martin]

No, cheta.

 

[gray]

Hmm, KTorrent's bugging me (i'll install rTorrent when I've got a little more time on my hands btw).

I installed the UPnP plugin and I've got my port forwarding set up correctly (which Natcheck also confirmed for me), but all of my torrents read "Stalled", with the reason given as "Invalid Response".

Doubleyoo Tee Eff mate?

 

[Martin]

Yeah, that's why I use azureus myself, it makes that stuff easy cause everyone has already seen those problems a million times and they've been fixed.