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updates | March 31, 2026

Audio preview in Dolphin Kubuntu 17.04

Dolphin is not displaying previews for audio files in Kubuntu 17.04.

Acconding to :

Audio thumbnailer is part of the kio-extras.

And according to :

Audio Thumbs will be part of kio-extras 17.04, so when you on 17.04 release you don't need to do this [download and compile] anymore.

kio-extras is installed, and in case it is meaningful this file is installed:

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/kfileaudiopreview.so

But I can't see any "Audio file" check option in Dolphin > Preferences > Previews.

On the other hand I do can see "ffmpegthumbs" videos option, but can't understand why it doesn't take charge of it, as renaming extensions from "m4a" to "mp4" does the job and displays the audio cover.

3 Reset to default

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