Just installed and pointed at my directory with MP3 files (structured by iTunes ie folder for each artist, then album, then tracks). All music found by when I play Amarok just skips through the track in a second.

All the media is ok, VLC Media plays the tracks no problem.

Any ideas ?

FIXED IT, UPDATED VERSION AND INSTALLED MP3 SUPPORT !

J

Updated to what?  I have done a partial distribution upgrade so I can get Amarok 2.0.1 under KDE 4.2 and still get a similar problem. it will skip through five or six songs and then the last one does not play and stays at time 0:00.  I am running Ubuntu 8.10 using the Gnome interface atm.  There are no updates in the queue that I can get (and the one grayed-out one is an image viewer).  I'm just lost here.

Hm, you guys should:
1. make sure you use the Xine backend in Phonon, as Gstreamer is rather buggy
2. Be sure you have installed the necessary library for mp3. It's called libxine1-ffmpeg for K/Ubuntu. Name might be different on other distributions. But I'm sure this question has been answered numerous times already on this forum, so why not do a search for "codec" or just "mp3"?

Already got the library.  Fixed now.  I had searched for mp3 -- didn't get anything.