Hi
i am very new to Amarok,could some1 give the basics please
i have music on my pc,but amarok can not play it,but if i put cd in drive it plays 

Hi nikef

To have Amarok play your music, you need to tell Amarok to add it to its collection (dont worry, it does not copy your music, just builds an index so it knows what you have)

Go to settings->Configure Amarok->Collection and mark off the folders that contain your music. Amarok now knows where to look and will automatically update your collection if you add new stuff in the future.

If it does not automatically start scanning your collection, go to the tools menu option and select "Rescan Collection"

Hope this helps!

Have fun,

Nikolaj

hi Nikolaj

and thank you

i have done that,so will it play my music now ,so i don't need the cd any more

have tried to play a song ,without cd
and get this error message 

No suitable input plugin. This often means that the url's protocol is not supported. Network failures are other possible causes.
cdda:/1

If I understand correctly, you have tried to add the cCD to you collection. This will not work. You said you also have music on your PC, this is what you should add to your collection. If you want to add your CD to your collection, you will need to rip it to your hard disk first, using a program like k3b or others...

Nikolaj

oh,so i use k3b to rip music first to my pc,then i can listen to it through Amarok

i do not have a cd-rw so i dont want to copy cd yet

thank you for helping me

You can also just Engage->Play Audio CD.

In k3b, in the tools menu, select "rip audio cd"

- Nikolaj

thanks guys
i have ripped music with the k3b and now can listen to my music 

so Amarok can not rip cds  then ?

No, Amarok depends on other programs for this functionality, just as it also depends on k3b for burning your playlists to a cd.

This is so the developers can focus on creating a REALLY good music manager / player instead of copying effort that goes into other great programs!

- Nikolaj

cool,i have been struggling with Amarok for a month now,thought it was me
i have unistalled it half a dozen times,could not get my head around it,but i can now 
thanks again

You are very welcome!

- Nikolaj

It sounds like you don't have the mp3 codecs installed.  Are you suing ubuntu?  If so, read the (K)Ubuntu README FIRST! thread in the help forum.