On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Duncan <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
Thanks for the welcome Duncan. I hadn't really looked for a list for KDE until you mentioned it on another list. Strangely the Preferences Dialog doesn't list OGG files. There are only about 10 entries there. I tried emerging smplayer and adding it for mp3's. It works fine, but opens the application every time I click on an mp3 link. That's really more the way I want a right-click on the link to behave, when it asks Save File, Open with..., and have smplayer be the default. With OGG files Firefox is automatically opening a new tab, and then running some little XML based player on that page. I like that for previews as it doesn't open a whole new app and put another app name on my bottom panel. It's all done just in Firefox. I've very surprised that mp3s are done the same way. I guess I need to continue to figure out how Firefox is actually playing the OGG files. Thanks, Mark ___________________________________________________ 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.
