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Fix Amarok Error: "Fingerprinting of .mp3 files is not supported"
If you receive an error saying “Tunepimp (MusicBrainz tagging library) returned the following error: “Fingerprinting of .mp3 files is not supported” when you are attempting to fill in the tags on your mp3 files using Amarok’s MusicBrainz plugin, then you’ve come to the right place.
This error message is really wide, isn’t it?
All you need to do is completely close down Amarok (make sure it’s not in the tray either), and then open up a terminal and run the following command:
sudo apt-get install libtunepimp5-mp3
Restart Amarok, and you should be able to immediately start using MusicBrainz:
Now if I just knew which album that song was on…
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- Published 07/2/07
brilliant, thank you heaps I spent all afternoon trying to get musicbrainz to fix 12 songs… makes you wonder why i didnt just rename them myself from the CD.
thanks man!
Thank you! This was the first fix I came to, and it fixed my problem right away! I appreciate it!
i have installed
libtunepimp5-0.5.3-100.pm.3
libtunepimp5-mad-0.5.3-100.pm.3
libtunepimp5-mp4-0.5.3-100.pm.3
from packman
still i am getting the same error. some one please help me out!!!
Does anyone know the yum equivalent of the apt-get command? (yum install libtunepimp5-mp3 does not work)
Binny,
You should use the “yum search” command to see what is available in the repository. I’m not running Suse, so I can’t give you the exact command at the moment, but you can do “yum search tunepimp” or something like that.
Got it – the command is
yum install libtunepimp-extras-nonfree
And it work :-)
Thank you so very much!!! :D
Thank you for your advice.
Fix worked perfectly.
However, when I try to fill in tag info with Musicbrains (regardless of trying one tag or many) the progress gets stuck on “Generating Audio Fingerprint…”.
Anyone?
Thanks in advance…
Really usefull, thanks a lot !
Grande! Very good! Thank you!
Thanks!!! It’s working on Kubuntu 8.04!!!!
Thanks now thats what i call a music player.
Excellent! Thanx a million!
comentario dio en el clavo!
Thanks man, you’re my hero :)
*** Thank You! ***
every word in this post is USEFUL!!!!!!
now Amarok works like a charm … just waiting Amarok 2 in the Ubuntu repositories
many thanks :)
Thanks, spot on.
Nice, Thanks
Works for me, thanks!
Due to the track number in the filename the song might be from “Play : the B sided” (-> #7) ;))
It really works!!!
Thx! But why is there no dependency in the repository?
I don’t care anymore :D