Bug#539270: [kdemultimedia] kde audio player software does not play files with whitespace in their filenames
Package: kdemultimedia
Version: 4:4.2.4-1
Severity: important
When a kde audio player program opens an audio file with a whitespace in a
filename, the file does not get played. Depending on the player program, error
messages vary or the song simply gets skipped. Amarok for instance, says the
file was not found.
Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Run a program using the kde phonon backend to play audio, for instance
amarok, juk, dragonplayer, kalarm
2. Open an audio file with a whitespace in its filename, the format does not
matter, for instance: test file.flac, test file.ogg, test_file.mp3
If one renames the test file.ogg to test_file.ogg or testfile.ogg, the song plays
normally.
Programs not using the Phonon audio backend, e.g. smplayer or mpg123, do not
suffer from this problem.
This means, all audio files with whitespace in their filenames do not play in
kde, not even in apps like kalarm etc. his severely hampers the audio playback
capabilities of kde4.
I wasn't sure which package is causing this problem, that's why I reported the
bug report against kdemultimedia, although it might better to assign the
report to phonon or qt4 instead.
My system is a freshly in installed HP 6830s laptop. I've installed a minimal
stable, upgraded to sid and installed desktop-base and kde4 afterwards.
Don't hesitate to email me if you need any more information about my system.
--- System information. ---
Architecture: amd64
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
990 unstable ftp.at.debian.org
850 unstable debian-mirrors.sdinet.de
--- Package information. ---
Depends (Version) | Installed
============================================-+-===============
dragonplayer (>= 4:4.2.4-1) | 4:4.2.4-1
kdemultimedia-kio-plugins (>= 4:4.2.4-1) | 4:4.2.4-1
juk (>= 4:4.2.4-1) | 4:4.2.4-1
kmix (>= 4:4.2.4-1) | 4:4.2.4-1
kscd (>= 4:4.2.4-1) | 4:4.2.4-1
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