[CentOS] Previewing oggvorbis files in GNOME...

[Jose Alburquerque]

Oops, I'm sorry.  I kinda thought that the GNOME project should have 
answers, but I had a little trouble finding their mailing list.  I just 
found their list and I think it should have answers!  I'll look there, 
but if anyone still wants to answer, please do.  Thanks again.

-Jose

Jose Alburquerque wrote:

> Hi.  I'm wondering if anyone out there can give me a little help 
> trying to figure something out:  I presently am running CentOS4.1 with 
> GNOME as my desktop (It runs quite well, I must say!).  I just have a 
> little curiosity:  I have a few audio files (.wav, .mp3 and .ogg) and 
> I like to "preview" them.  When run my mouse over the .wav files (and 
> mp3 files) the "previewing" function works fine, but when I try to 
> preview an oggvorbis file (.ogg) it seems that the file is about to be 
> previewed (because the icon changes), but no sound comes out.
>
> I noticed that nautilus (the file-manager) uses sox to play the audio 
> files when previewing.  Recently I had to add mp3 support to sox to be 
> able to use "graveman" (a cd burning software) and I figure that's why 
> mp3 previewing works fine for me under GNOME.  I thought that the 
> reason that ogg files do not sound is because my version of sox may 
> not have oggvorbis support, but this is not the case because I can 
> play them using the "play" command easily at the command line.  Also 
> when I type "sox -h" I get:
>
> sox: Version 12.17.7
>
> Usage: [ gopts ] [ fopts ] ifile [ fopts ] ofile [ effect [ effopts ] ]
>
> gopts: -e -h -p -v volume -V
>
> fopts: -r rate -c channels -s/-u/-U/-A/-a/-i/-g/-f -b/-w/-l/-d -x
>
> effect: avg band bandpass bandreject chorus compand copy dcshift 
> deemph earwax echo echos fade filter flanger highp highpass lowp 
> lowpass mask mcompand noiseprof noisered pan phaser pick pitch 
> polyphase rate repeat resample reverb reverse silence speed stat 
> stretch swap synth trim vibro vol
>
> effopts: depends on effect
>
> Supported file formats: aiff al au auto avr cdr cvs dat vms gsm hcom 
> la lu maud mp3 nul ossdsp prc raw sb sf sl smp sndt sph 8svx sw txw ub 
> ul uw voc vorbis vox wav wve
>
> which let's me know that my version of sox has vorbis support.  Anyone 
> know why I can't preview my oggvorbis files in GNOME?  Thanks a million.
>
> -Jose
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