On Sunday 09 August 2009, Stroller wrote: > On 9 Aug 2009, at 21:00, Mick wrote: > > On Sunday 09 August 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > >> Am Sonntag 09 August 2009 21:23:27 schrieb Mick: > >>> I am looking at saving the mp3 files presented in Konqueror when > >>> looking > >>> at the contents of an audio CD. Although I can play/copy .wav files > >>> fine, I cannot play .mp3 files shown in Konqueror. All I get is a > >>> hiss > >>> no matter which player I use. > >> > >> What konqueror presents is just a virtual view. You cannot play > >> anything > >> else than the .wav's from a CD, because they're the only ones > >> representing > >> the real data. > > > > Oh, I see. When I copy an mp3 file I get a file which is 4.5MB > > large, so I > > thought that it has real music in it. > > I believe that once you've dragged & dropped one of these somewhere - > resulting in a .mp3 file of about that size - they should indeed be > playable. It sounds like something's broken. > > Are you using KDE 3.5.10? > > I think your problem may be described in this article: > http://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/200907/page04.html > > But, if you want to rip MP3 files, you will have some extra work > to do > to get them to come out right. Due to a "bug" that crept into KDE > 3.5.10, MP3s do not encode properly. Without the "fix," all your > MP3s > will be nothing more than static-filled white noise. > > I no longer consider MP3 as a particularly good format for compressed > audio. You might want to consider the Ogg Vorbis option, although on > other platforms you may need to install software to play this format.
Thank you both. It seems that this is indeed a bug for KDE-3.5.10. :-( I tried both solutions and neither works. The former creates a 4.5MB mp3 file which is full of white noise, the latter described in the article creates an empty file 0MB. Is there another solution to this? I need mp3 because the file will be ultimately played on a vanilla WinXP PC. -- Regards, Mick
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