*solved*Amarok not playing mp3s

somairotevoli · 2006-09-24 21:53:49

never had a problem before. all of a sudden I am getting these errors.

The xine-engine claims it cannot play MP3 files.

No suitable demux plugin. This often means that the file format is not supported.

Plays fine w/ sudo amarok

I am part of the audio group. I can play mp3s and others w/ my other players.

Edit: followed this advice I found through googleing

In your /home/user/.xine folder there is a hidden file called catalog.cache. Make a backup copy of that then copy catalog.cache file from the new account you created.

I just copied my root catalog.cache to my users

chrismortimore · 2006-09-25 06:47:42

I'm gonna assume you have xine installed, given you have xine-engine. So try "xine [some song].mp3" in a terminal and see if it posts any messages. That'll give us a hint at least.

juanmah · 2009-04-07 08:43:39

This happened to me when I changed from i686 to x86_64.

My solution was deleting .xine folder, then it worked.

Arch Linux

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