Amarok taking over

[Derek Trotter]

I followed your directions, then rebooted, but the problem persists.  
There must be another bug in there somewhere.  I'll just remove Amarok 
from the list of programs to play mp3 files.  It's still there if I want it.

On 01/15/2014 12:17 PM, Brian Cluff wrote:
> I wouldn't do anything with it.  I would just install the 
> kubuntu-updates PPA and get KDE 4.12.  That should have the attached 
> fix already compiled into the system.
>
> If you aren't familiar with the kubuntu-updates PPA.  It is run by the 
> same people that package KDE for kubuntu itself, so it is just as 
> trustworthy and of the same quality as the distribution packages 
> themselves.
>
> https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa/+archive/ppa
>
> add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/ppa
> apt-get update
> apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> ...profit
>
> Brian Cluff
>
> On 01/15/2014 09:27 AM, Derek Trotter wrote:
>> Thanks.  At the end of that page there's an attachment.  What would I do
>> with it?
>>
>> On 01/15/2014 07:41 AM, Brian Cluff wrote:
>>> Found the problem...
>>>
>>> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=321706
>>>
>>> The good news is that it's fixed already, you just need to get the
>>> version with the fix applied.
>>>
>>> Brian Cluff
>>>
>>> On 01/15/2014 02:17 AM, Derek Trotter wrote:
>>>> delboy at ladmo:~/.local/share/applications$ ls -l mimeapps.list
>>>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 delboy delboy 15740 Jan 15 02:06 mimeapps.list
>>>>
>>>> I went into system settings - file associations and added amarok to 
>>>> the
>>>> list of files to play mp3 files and moved it to the bottom of the 
>>>> list.
>>>> Next I checked mimeapps.list and found the following two lines.
>>>>
>>>>  From mimeapps.list
>>>> audio/x-mp3=kde4-amarok.desktop
>>>> audio/x-mpeg=kde4-amarok.desktop
>>>>
>>>> Then I went back to file associations and removed amarok from the list
>>>> of files to play mp3 files.  I clicked on an mp3 file and vlc played
>>>> it.  I went back to look at mimeapps.list and these two lines were 
>>>> still
>>>> there.
>>>>
>>>> From mimeapps.list
>>>> audio/x-mp3=kde4-amarok.desktop
>>>> audio/x-mpeg=kde4-amarok.desktop
>>>
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