I am able to convince iTunes to play flacs/oggs locally, albeit it's a pain. Well, not that painful. Two components have to be added into separate system folders.
However, when iTunes connects to a DAAP share from my Ubuntu/Rhythmbox machine, flacs or oggs are seen but misunderstood.
The playback solution from my disorganized post above gives QuickTime the ability to play flacs and oggs. The problem is that iTunes won't use QT for flac/ogg playback unless you add some metadata to the resource fork for an individual file. Never will happen for a non-local file.
DAAP, being non-local by nature, cannot participate in this slight of hand. Unless...
Written by jamesisin the 18 Feb 10 at 00:20.
Global category: Multimedia.
Not an idea
As it stands, Rhythmbox is not able to directly track changes made to the file and folder hierarchy wherein a musical collection is housed.
For instance if I see that I have misspelled the folder for Teh Who and change that folder name, Rhythmbox lists those tracks as Missing. If those tracks happened to appear in any playlists, they would need to be manually re-added. This holds true for any file or folder name change anywhere in the folder hierarchy for the library (or any imported file or folder).
Right-clicking on a Missing track gives only two options: Remove (duh) and Properties.
The link breaks and there is no method by which to fix it.
When one opens a thread in the Ubuntu forums, there is only one choice for closing that thead: SOLVED.
This does not cover all the possible situations in which one may find oneself closing a thread.
For example, it would be wrong indeed to close a thread as SOLVED if in the end a bug report were filed. Also, if you created a workaround in lieu of a solution SOLVED again seems inappropriate.