Mark Knecht posted on Sat, 11 Dec 2010 13:21:02 -0800 as excerpted: > Hi all. First post here. > > I've been running KDE for a while now but haven't done much personal > configuration. One small problem I'm having is that mp3 files don't play > back within Firefox like OGG files do. What's the KDE specific way of > getting this to work? > > I understand that Firefox isn't the KDE browser but I use it on other > platforms and would like to use it successfully within KDE. My system is > Gentoo 64-bit, mostly stable except for a few apps. KDE Ver.-4.4.5. I've > attached a list of packages currently installed.
Hi. Nice to see you on a kde list, too. =:^) As you no doubt know I'm a gentoo/~amd64 user, running kde, tho you may not know I run the latest upstream/kde stable from the gentoo/kde overlay, so am running 4.5.4, now. FWIW, I do /not/ use firefox for mp3s, but rather, have several other programs associated with them (and with playlists), with smplayer being the highest priority association for mp3s and m3u playlists, while pls playlists are associated with mpd (music-player-daemon), tho I use qmpdclient's (a qt4 mpd frontend) shoutcast "internet radio tuner" feature most of the time these days. Surely, firefox doesn't play them on its own, but rather, plays them using whatever media plugin is configured for firefox? Anyway, firefox has its own config, separate from kde. To change kde's associations (what happens when you click on an mp3 in dolphin or konqueror), go to kcontrol[1], the file associations kcm. The kcm layout changed with kde 4.5, where the file associations kcm is under common appearance and behavior. IDR what it's under in 4.4. Anyway, once there, you'd put the file pattern you're interested in, in the search box at the top, and it'll filter to only the appropriate entry. For mp3, it's audio/mpeg. Click on that in the left panel and it should let you change the associations and their priority in the right panel, general tab. (The embedding tab lets you set whether the default is to open in a separate viewer or embedded in dolphin/konqueror/gwenview, as appropriate. You can also set the embedded services preference order much as you can the associations order on the general tab.) Firefox's associations are set in firefox. Edit menu, preferences entry, will open a dialog. Applications tab. I'll let you go at it from there as I don't claim any particular familiarity with those settings, tho I've not had any problem changing them the time or two I've needed to. You might wish to see what it does with ogg, tho, and setup mp3 similarly. That's the way I'd approach it. --- [1] kcontrol, wrongly aka system settings. kcontrol was the more accurate kde3 name. The kde4 name makes little sense at all, because at least as shipped by kde, nearly all the settings there are user- and kde-specific settings, not system-wide settings applying outside kde and to all users, as one might expect from what it says on the kde4 label, system settings. Additionally, kcontrol was reasonably googlable; just /try/ googling something as generic as "system settings"! At least the kcontrol modules are still called kcm-s! So I continue to use the accurate name and always end up attaching an explanation like this so folks who never used kde3 have a clue what I'm talking about. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
