MP3 Support?

[Amichai Rotman]

I have fixed it by deleting the ~/.xine directory, following the advice on
one of the posts in the Amarok forums.

Seems to have happened after a recent upgrade to Kubuntu Hardy.

FYI!

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Amichai Rotman

UIN#: 6401746
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On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 16:27, Orville Bennett <illogical1 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Mar 1, 2009, at 3:17 AM, Amichai Rotman wrote:
>
> I was poking around and found out something interesting: I am able to play
> MP3 files in K3B (by adding an MP3 file to an Audio CD project and hitting
> play from within the list)...
>
> Can you play those same mp3s in some xinr frontend like xine-ui or gxine
> (or totem)?
>
>
> I checked the Plugins section of the K3B settings and it says it is using
> the FFMpeg decoding plugin version 0.91...
>
> In Amarok - Xine Engine is the *only* engine available...
>
> Strange!
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> Amichai Rotman
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> On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 09:57, Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org>wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 8:28 AM, Amichai Rotman <amichai at iglu.org.il>
>> wrote:
>> > Sorry, I did forgot to mention that ;-)
>> >
>> > I am using Kubuntu Hardy (8.04.2).
>> >
>> > These are the Xine and Amarok components installed:
>> >
>> > ii  libxine1
>> > 1.1.11.1-1ubuntu3.2
>> > ii  libxine1-all-plugins
>> > 1.1.11.1-1ubuntu3.2
>> > ii  libxine1-bin
>> > 1.1.11.1-1ubuntu3.2
>> > ii  libxine1-console
>> > 1.1.11.1-1ubuntu3.2
>> > ii  libxine1-ffmpeg
>> > 1.1.11.1-1ubuntu3.2
>> > ii  libxine1-gnome
>> > 1.1.11.1-1ubuntu3.2
>> > ii  libxine1-misc-plugins
>> > 1.1.11.1-1ubuntu3.2
>> > ii  libxine1-plugins
>> > 1.1.11.1-1ubuntu3.2
>> > ii  libxine1-x
>> > 1.1.11.1-1ubuntu3.2
>> > ii  libxinerama-dev
>> > 2:1.0.2-1build1
>> > ii  libxinerama1
>> > 2:1.0.2-1build1
>> > ii  amarok
>> > 2:1.4.9.1-0ubuntu3.1+medibuntu1
>> > ii  amarok-engines
>> > 2:1.4.9.1-0ubuntu3.1+medibuntu1
>> > ii  amarok-xine
>> > 2:1.4.9.1-0ubuntu3.1+medibuntu1
>>
>> Make sure that you are actually _using_ the xine-engine, and not
>> something else. You can check this in Amarok's configuration dialog ->
>> Engine.
>>
>> Other than that, with libxine1-ffmpeg installed, Amarok should play
>> MP3 (with the xine-engine) just fine. Except if your MP3 have some
>> weird DRM scheme in them or something.
>>
>> --
>> Mark Kretschmann
>> Amarok Developer
>> www.kde.org - amarok.kde.org
>>
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