I have only recently begun using SuSE linux. I am currently dual-booting with Windows XP and all of my mp3\'s are stored on a separate NTFS partition. I am using KDE and the first time I opened amaroK to try it out, it took me through the setup process, which seemed to go fine, and set up a library of all my music, showing under the Collection tab. I even set up some of the Smart Playlists.

However, anytime I go to any song in any playlist and either double-click it or select it and push the Play button, the Play button changes as if it is really playing the song, but I never hear anything and all that ever happens is that the player just starts going down the list in rapid-fire succession, showing the song information in a little blue banner at the top of the player and displaying the message \"Playing (insert song name here)\" at the bottom. Also, the player always crashes after going only part of the way down the list.

At first, I thought the music would not play because it was stored on a separate NTFS partition, or that my sound card was not working. However, as a test, I downloaded and installed RealPlayer 10 and, even though I have to select tracks individually, the music plays fine in that player.

I would appreciate any advice anyone can offer to help solve this problem.

Thanks in advance.

Blame SuSE and follow http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/178/42/

Hydrogen wrote:

Blame SuSE and follow http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/178/42/

I\'m having exactly the same problem as the OP however I am on Kubuntu 5.10 with the latest install of Amarok. Have installed all the engines individually and tried them out but am just not having any joy getting the files to play.

It reminds mostly of when a media player like WinAmp or something can\'t find the files in a playlist because thay have moved so it just flips forward through each one in turn...however Xmms managed to play my .mp3 from my smb4k mounted network win server so why shouldn\'t Amarok ??

Most perpexing (and not a little diappointing cause it looks awesome and xmms sounded sh#t !)

Anyone got a clue ?
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Add me to the list of Suse 10 users having this problem. Hope to see a solution soon.

Which one of the suggestions from the jem report are you suggesting will fix the problem? Installing mplayer and using that instead?

I just installed Suse 10.0 (OpenSuse) and am having the same problem. Logged in as root (to rule out any permissions issue) I can use the file tab to browse to songs via smb://, but they just don\'t play. If I copy them locally or mount the share they play fine. I realize mounting the share solves several other issues with playlists, but I hate hate hate playlists ( I want to play my music by selecting File>Open, that\'s it) so I don\'t care about that.

Am I right in guessing that the smb:// browse capability is a KDE functionality, and any problems with it lie there, not with amarok (though it is nice of amarok to support it, if it would work.)

just install mad and xine-mad rpms
that works , also try
http://spinink.net/suse-for-windows-users/#sources

Don\'t blame SuSE! blame these assclowns, http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/amm/ : They are the ones that came up with the mp3 codec, and they are the ones that waited till LATE in the game to exercise their patent rights. They are the ones that are extorting money from companies wishing to ship an mp3 decoder with their products.
Send them your hate-mail, not Novell. Novell can\'t possibly be expected to shell out $50K-60K just to ship a mp3 decoder! The only 2 coutries in the world that support software patents, the US and Germany are also to blame. For without their STUPID legislation that was lobbied by big business, this sort of extortion, would have never been possible.

Count me in for problems with AmaroK and SuSE.  I run 10.1 and can populate a list from folders through SMB on a NTFS drive.  But it will give me a list of question marks "?" for time length.  I attempt to play the list, the play button lights and get a title of the track.  But it just sits at 0:00 and get nothing.  I have tried everything that I could find including this forum topic.  I just can't figure this out.  Sidetrack note:  That Smart Manager suggestion was a great one.  So much better than YaST by a mile!  Thanks.

Had to add this:  IMPORTANT

I found a solution..  Smb4K!  Mark said he was having issues with this, but mine works.  Easily adds windows shares into the linux file system.  This is how I got my files to work.  And works great.