Amarok stopped playing MP3-files

Vaxu · 2007-07-11 19:01:34

So after a system upgrade maybe a few weeks ago Amarok stopped playing mp3-files. I thought that it was some error in the packages, and started to use xmms for a while.. But i haven't seen anything about this on the forums so i guess something happened on my computer. Today i installed the newest upgrades for amarok and it didn't help at all..

When i try to play mp3s all i get is this error:

I have absolutely no idea on whats causing this error so please help me, i need to have my amarok (working)!

Execpt now when i think about it after some other upgrade i couldn't run rtorrent, it needed som library (sadly i dont remember which one) which it couldnt find alltough i had it installed, after some digging i found out that it was a symlink missing which i made and rtorrent worked after that, could i have the same problem here?

a little more info:

[root@vaxnet ~]# pacman -Qs xine
local/amarok-engine-xine 1.4.6-1
xine engine for amaroK
....
local/xine-lib 1.1.6-2
A free video player for Unix
local/xine-ui 0.99.5-2
A free video player for Unix

[root@vaxnet ~]# pacman -Qs amarok
local/amarok-base 1.4.6-1
amaroK - a media player for KDE
local/amarok-engine-xine 1.4.6-1
xine engine for amaroK

N30N · 2007-07-11 21:57:44

I've had this problem in the past. I think the solution was to just remove amaroks config files ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok and/or ~/.kde/share/config/amarokrc.

Vaxu · 2007-07-14 23:38:48

Well today i did a pacman -Syu again, and xine-lib got upgraded and everything started working again.

I wonder if it is something i did or maybe a bug in pacman that caused this error in the first place.. probably something i did.

Last edited by Vaxu (2007-07-14 23:40:43)

Kardell · 2007-07-28 00:28:52

I`ve got very similar problem, but about void-engine cause xine dissapeared.

"void-engine" claims that it cannot play MP3 files...

When I went to the Amarok modules option I found only one option -> <no output>.
Always I was using engine-xine. Removing amarokrc did not help.
This problem appeared after new update Amarok Xine engine from 1.4.5-3 to 1.4.6-1. When I went back to old amarok-engine-xine it was all right. After some pacman duties I miss-removed old engine package and after new release of amarok-base I again lost possibility to listen.

[root@skywalker tmp]# pacman -Qs amarok
local/amarok-base 1.4.6-1
    amaroK - a media player for KDE
local/amarok-engine-xine 1.4.6-1
    xine engine for amaroK

What`s wrong?

Kardell · 2007-08-02 07:30:29

Anybody knows where I can find old:

amarok-engine-xine-1.4.5-3.pkg.tar.gz
amarok-base-1.4.5-3.pkg.tar.gz

to download!?

FireWatcher showes me only some non-existing links to the Arch repositories.

I`m able to solve every Linux problem, but if the music don`t play I can`t concentrate myself, I`m easy becoming mad and finally frustrated.
Help!

milan · 2007-08-02 09:36:40

Try this repo:
ftp://ftp.linux.org.tr/pub/archlinux/extra/os/i686/

Cheers!

Kardell · 2007-08-02 10:05:23

milan wrote:

Try this repo:
ftp://ftp.linux.org.tr/pub/archlinux/extra/os/i686/
Cheers!

Works!
Thank You very much!
Going back to work immediately fully recharged.

imachine · 2007-08-30 11:35:04

Had similar issues recently; it seems, however, that all needed to be removed was ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/xine-config

I also removed ~/.xine but I'm not sure if that was necesary - although I think so, since before I did that, my kmplayer with xine as backend could not play mp3 files either.

So that's that :-)

STiAT · 2007-09-01 18:00:10

I just could solve exactly this problem by removing ~/.xine completely.

Yours,
STiAT

johntramp · 2007-10-18 21:05:05

mv ~/.xine ~/.xine.backup

worked for me too.

cheers

narzac · 2011-05-08 23:49:13

Guys it is FAQ at amarok and has answered for various GNU/Linux distributions.

This is the solution, please stop flying away your config files.
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The default in Arch seems to be GStreamer, to try the GStreamer plugins do the following:

pacman -S gstreamer0.10-plugins
If you encounter problems that are not solved with this you can try switching to Xine (recommended):

pacman -S phonon-xine
Now choose Xine in:

System Settings > Multimedia > Backend (tab)
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Reference: http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/MP3:Arch

Last edited by narzac (2011-05-08 23:52:02)

ewaller · 2011-05-09 01:42:40

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Amarok stopped playing MP3-files

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