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mike2k

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Registered: 2014-03-15

Posts: 6

Amarok not playing Mp3's [SOLVED]

Hi there,

I am trying to run Amarok on my fresh installation of Arch and it won't play MP3's. I can get them to play using SM player just not Amarok yet

I assume it is something to do with the phonon back-end but gstreamer is fully installed.

I can get other sounds from Amarok such as .wav files etc...

Where I am concerned is I think from distant memory on this machine I never managed to get it to work in the past and used a different phonon back end (xine possibly) but I don't seem to be able to find any option to do this any more.

I apologise in advance if I've made a really simple mistake, but after 3 hours of searching and trying different things I'm beginning to get frustrated.

Mike

Last edited by mike2k (2014-10-25 21:48:37)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,076

Re: Amarok not playing Mp3's [SOLVED]

Output of

pacman -Qs gstreamer

I'd wager you are missing gst-plugins-ugly, what you can also do if you think its backend specific on your particular computer (which I highly doubt to be honest) is install phonon-vlc and switch backends in KDE's multimedia systemsettings

mike2k

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Registered: 2014-03-15

Posts: 6

Re: Amarok not playing Mp3's [SOLVED]

Hi there V1del

I'd wager you are missing gst-plugins-ugly

Absolutely bang on!

Thank you so much! I knew it would be simple. Spent to long sat in front of these computers today

Cheers

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,076

Re: Amarok not playing Mp3's [SOLVED]

Yeah the only thing that gets installed automatically for gstreamer are the base plugins which only contain decoders for ogg and other free formats, it is seldom a bad idea to install the other plugins for more codecs (in particular ugly and gst-libav, which is used for many html5 videos in firefox for example)