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When I mouse over an AIFF I can hear the music, but when I double-click on it,
Nautilus says it can't handle it, and when I open music view, it's not visible.

* REPRODUCIBLE: Always

* STEPS TO REPRODUCE:

Put an AIFF file and an MP3 file into your directory, view them in each view,
and try to make them play (double-click).

* ACTUAL RESULTS: 

 They will both preview with a mouse-over in Icon view, but when you
double-click on the AIFF file, Nautilus brings up an error saying it can't
handle AIFF files; and when you view them in Music View, the AIFF file doesn't
show up.

* EXPECTED RESULTS: 

  Nautilus should handle AIFF files (and other music files) the same way as MP3
files.



------- Additional Comments From eli@eazel.com 2000-12-20 11:28:26 ----

This is technically not a software bug, although perhaps a usability issue that
John Sullivan or Arlo may want to look at:

* Only MP3 files are supported by Music View. Audio previewing, however,
supports any Sox-supported format, as well as MP3.

* Double-clicking on an MP3 file is a completely different question --- Nautilus
needs the MIME type set up to refer to a playback program. We wouldn't be
playing it back no matter what by double-clicking on it under the current user
interface design, so the error message is technically correct. (This confused
me, too.)

CC:ing sullivan so that he feels compelled to say something. ;)



------- Additional Comments From sullivan@eazel.com 2000-12-21 08:47:32 ----

Eli's analysis is exactly right. It is awkward that previewing, Music View, 
and activating individual audio files each work on different sets of audio 
files. We can address part of this issue perhaps by making sure the initial 
MIME database includes a program to open AIFF files (maybe it already 
does and the user just didn't have that program?). Aaron, maybe you 
could review the status of different audio file types in the MIME database?

Another part of the problem is that the dialog you get when Nautilus can't 
display the file is less than helpful. I've filed a separate bug about this 
issue (bug 45321).



------- Additional Comments From aaron@lithic.org 2000-12-26 13:22:18 ----

it appears that the best support option for aiff is to continue with the same
interface used for mp3 and wavs: xmms. with libsndfile installed and an xmms
plugin called xmms_sndfile (which is in 1.0pre6) xmms can handle all the sound
formats in libsndfile.

can these packages be added the the standard distribution? who does that sort of
thing?




------- Additional Comments From gzr@eazel.com 2001-01-15 00:20:29 ----

This would require a change to the entire music view architecture.  I tis now 
reall a "View as MP3" view.



------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2001-09-09 20:48 -------

The original reporter (taska@eazel.com) of this bug does not have an account here.
Reassigning to the exporter, unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org.