cannot play mp3 in amarok

[John Meyer]

Donn Washburn wrote:
> peter wrote:
>   
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I tried several solutions to play mp3 in amarok under suse open 10.2.
>> running on an athlon 1800 +.
>> Can anyone give me a step by step method in order to play mp 3 in
>> amarok, because i love the looks of the program.
>>
>>
>> thanx 
>>
>> grtz Peter
>>     
> Your problem is due to SuSE not configuring xine-lib and amarok 
> correctly for legal reasons.  Most of the problem is due to xine-lib. 
> Download the sources, compile them and Amarok works great!  Then ssek 
> out www.sky.fm and "streamripper".  Life can be made beautiful!!!! or at 
> least the music part.
>
>   
I had that problem a couple of times, put since I added packman and the
additional repositories, amarok works like a charm.