Amarok and Xine can't play MP3, but VLC and MPlayer can

[Amara Emerson]

> Thanks for the explanation.  :)  It's too bad there isn't some kind of
>  simple engine that just uses existing libs to play files.  Or maybe I
>  don't know what I'm talking about.  It just seems strange that Amarok
>  has to use Xine for everything when there are other ways to play audio
>  files.
That's basically what phonon does. Amarok does have other engines
available for it, I've tried the gstreamer engine in the past though
I've always used xine.

Amara