No mp3 sound in amarok2, but works in amarok1

Lydia Pintscher lydia at kde.org
Tue Sep 2 17:22:56 UTC 2008


On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 18:51, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is on Fedora F9.
>
> amarok-1.4.9 plays mp3 fine.
>
> But amarok-1.90 (from kde-redhat unstable) does not play mp3.
>
> Backend is xine.
>
> I have the following xine-related stuff:
> rpm -qa '*xine*'
> xine-lib-devel-1.1.12-2.fc9.x86_64
> xine-lib-extras-nonfree-1.1.12-1.lvn9.x86_64
> xine-0.99.5-1.lvn8.x86_64
> xine-lib-pulseaudio-1.1.12-2.fc9.x86_64
> xine-lib-arts-1.1.12-2.fc9.x86_64
> phonon-backend-xine-4.1.0-1.fc9.x86_64
> xine-lib-extras-1.1.12-2.fc9.x86_64
> xine-lib-1.1.12-2.fc9.i386
> xine-lib-1.1.12-2.fc9.x86_64

Amarok 2 uses Phonon as the only backend.
Please check in systemsettings -> sound if Phonon is really using xine
as a backend. If not you need to install mp3-support for that other
Phonon-backend.

Cheers
Lydia
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Lydia Pintscher
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