Amarok 3 doesn't play music anymore

[Jan Nagel]

Hello,

I loved Amarok 1 and Amarok 2, so I was very happy about the release of Amarok 3, and I installed it on my Linux PC (Tuxedo OS) some month ago. It worked a couple of months without any problems, but since some weeks it doesn't work anymore.

Amarok starts and shows my music collection, but when I press "Play", Amarok doesn't play the music, and the progress bar doesn't show any progress. When I start amarok from a terminal, I get the following messages:

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$ amarok
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** AMAROK WAS STARTED IN NORMAL MODE. IF YOU WANT TO SEE DEBUGGING INFORMATION, PLEASE USE: **
** amarok --debug                                                                           **
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WARNING: bool Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend() phonon backend plugin could not be loaded
WARNING: bool Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend() phonon backend plugin could not be loaded
WARNING: bool Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend() phonon backend plugin could not be loaded
WARNING: bool Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend() phonon backend plugin could not be loaded
WARNING: bool Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend() phonon backend plugin could not be loaded
WARNING: Phonon::createPath: Cannot connect  Phonon::MediaObject ( no objectName ) to  Phonon::AudioOutput ( no objectName ).
WARNING: bool Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend() phonon backend plugin could not be loaded
WARNING: bool Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend() phonon backend plugin could not be loaded
WARNING: bool Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend() phonon backend plugin could not be loaded
WARNING: bool Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend() phonon backend plugin could not be loaded
WARNING: bool Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend() phonon backend plugin could not be loaded
WARNING: bool Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend() phonon backend plugin could not be loaded
WARNING: Phonon::createPath: Cannot connect  Phonon::MediaObject ( no objectName ) to  Phonon::AudioDataOutput ( no objectName ).
WARNING: bool Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend() phonon backend plugin could not be loaded
WARNING: bool Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend() phonon backend plugin could not be loaded
Got ERROR: "Can't open and lock privilege tables: Table 'mysql.servers' doesn't exist" errno: 2000
kf.kirigami: Failed to find a Kirigami platform plugin
file:///usr/share/kpackage/genericqml/org.kde.amarok.context/contents/ui/main.qml:97:25: QML Connections: Implicitly defined onFoo properties in Connections are deprecated. Use this syntax instead: function onFoo(<arguments>) { ... }
file:///usr/share/kpackage/genericqml/org.kde.amarok.context/contents/ui/main.qml:87:25: QML Connections: Implicitly defined onFoo properties in Connections are deprecated. Use this syntax instead: function onFoo(<arguments>) { ... }
file:///usr/share/kpackage/genericqml/org.kde.amarok.context/contents/ui/main.qml:97:25: QML Connections: Implicitly defined onFoo properties in Connections are deprecated. Use this syntax instead: function onFoo(<arguments>) { ... }
file:///usr/share/kpackage/genericqml/org.kde.amarok.context/contents/ui/main.qml:87:25: QML Connections: Implicitly defined onFoo properties in Connections are deprecated. Use this syntax instead: function onFoo(<arguments>) { ... }
file:///usr/share/kpackage/amarok/org.kde.amarok.lyrics/contents/ui/main.qml:95:17: QML Connections: Implicitly defined onFoo properties in Connections are deprecated. Use this syntax instead: function onFoo(<arguments>) { ... }
WARNING: bool Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend() phonon backend plugin could not be loaded
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I'm wondering about all the "phonon"-messages. Other media players - e. g. "mpv" - use "pipewire" as audio output.

Distribution: TUXEDO OS (based on Ubuntu 24.04)
Linux Kernel: 6.11.0-107011-tuxedo
Amarok: 3.1.1-0zneon+24.04+noble+release+build1
qt5-phonon: 4:4.12.0-11zneon+24.04+noble+release+build3
qt6-phonon: 4:4.12.0-11zneon+24.04+noble+release+build3
QT and KDE frameworks: 6.8.0 (says dolphin)

T'm looking forward to your help,
best regards


Jan Nagel</arguments></arguments></arguments></arguments></arguments>