Playlist advancing to fast.

[Leo Franchi]

On Jun 18, 2009, at 8:26 AM, Donn Washburn wrote:

> Hey Group;
>
> This is something that was happening in 2.0.2 from SuSE and now in  
> 2.1.1.
> Playlist>Add Media then select /usr/share/Music/smoothjazz/select all
> files.mp3 in that directory.
> Cut and Paste to the right hand panel under the "Search playlist"  
> area.
> All of the files show up correctly.  Hit the play button and one right
> after the other the songs are played at a rapid pace with no sound.  I
> believe this to be a KDE4 issue.  I have tried to remove / 
> homeuser/.kde
> and .kde4 share/apps/amarok.  Did not help!
>
> What determines the advance speed of the list being played?  Is  
> there a
> timer or does files size sets the play back per song speed.  A typical
> file is about 2MB.

Likely what is happening is Phonon is failing to play your files. You  
are probably missing an  mp3 codec.

Ask your distro for how to properly install phonon-xine mp3 support.

leo