[NTLUG:Discuss] Weird audio question

[Ralph]

Howdy,
  It sounds like amarok and noatun need a plugin that handles flac and
don't have one.  VLC has one compiled in.  I believe amarok, uses the
xine libraries to play flac, but I don't know about noatun.  Some
versions of the xine libraries had problems with flac files, but I think
that was fixed before your version.
  To convert a flac file to a wave file, I would use a tool cleverly
called flac.  Just type:
  flac -d "Yes - Fragile - 01 - Roundabout.flac"
 The quotes are needed because you carelessly allowed spaces in your
file names.
Good luck,
Ralph

On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 23:22 -0600, Wayne Dahl wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> OS - Kubuntu 8.04
> HP DV1906US laptop
> Amarok 1.4.9.1
> KDE 3.5.10
> 
> I have a question about some rather weird behavior when playing some 
> .flac audio files.  I have 2 albums in .flac format that won't play 
> properly in Amarok or Noatun or mplayer...but play just fine, although 
> with lowered volume in VLC.  The songs seem to start ok in Amarok, but