Hi,

I've installed Amarok 1.4.7 on my Debian Sid, but it didn't play mp3s. I googled and I found some guides that told me to install libxine1-ffmpeg (previously libxine-extracodecs), but I already had it on. I found then that version 1.4.7 was unstable so I removed it and installed version 1.4.4 but it still doesn't work.

I remeber that on ubuntu Amarok just crashed while trying to play a mp3 but then asked with a popup if I wanted to install the mp3 support and so it worked. But on Debian i didn't recieve any popup. How to make it works?

thanks

I'm not english, so if i made any mistake, forgive me

edit: I also found this:

/usr/lib/amarok/install-mp3

but it doesn't work since in my /amarok directory there's nothing

and this:

$mkdir ~/.xine/plugins/
$cp -r /usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.4/ ~/.xine/plugins/

doesn't work either. (I had 1.1.8 instead of 1.1.4)

also tried:

apt-get remove --purge amarok and then reinstalled it but it didn't purged anything! the configuration of the newly installed amarok (1.4.7) was the one I had before, and the xine-engines keeps saying that it cannot play mp3s.

i use alsa, and i tried oss but didn't work.

any suggestions?

again i ask: why on ubuntu i could install the mp3 support by clicking yes on a popup and now on sid i don't get that popup?

edit2: this is what i meant:

In case your distribution has to ship multimedia backends without MP3 support (for example due to patent issues) you can add a script to install the needed packages to enable MP3 support.

For xine you can enable this feature by:

    * adding src/engine/xine/amarok_xine-mp3_install.desktop to it's directories Makefile.am
    * edit the Exec argument of the desktop file to how the script to install MP3 support should be executed.

If amarok_xine-mp3_install.desktop is installed Amarok will show a pop-up telling the user that MP3 support is missing, and that he can install it by just clicking a button (which will execute the exec agrument), as soon as he tries to play a MP3 file.

how to make this work on my amarok?

I tried many things before I got Amarok to play mp3.  Basically I used Adept Program manager in Kde to install the following:

(1) xine - all packages
(2) kdemultimedia-kfile-plugin (I'm using kde not Gnome)
(3)lame
(4)lame-extras
(5)libk3b2-mp3
(6)libgmp3c2
(7)liblame-dev
(8)liblame0
(9)xmms-mad (and any other "mad" files you can find.  They have something to do with MP3s.
(10)amarok-xine
(11)kaffeine-xine
(12)libxine1
(13)libxine1-ffmpeg
(14)libxine1-kde
(15)libxinerama1

Some of these packages installed by themselves because they were dependents of other packages.  I listed all the ones I could think of.  I hope this helps you.

M

Also, read the requirements for Amarok as posted in the Wiki:
http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Requirements

Very helpful items here.  Tells you everything you need to install and why you need to install it.  Mandatory reading!

M

i really thank you for your answer, but i had already read that and i had already installed all those packages..

it still says that the xine engine can't play mp3

I wish I could help you further but I am a noob on Linux and feel fortunate to have gotten mine to work in the first place.

Good Luck.  God Bless.
M

well, i really thank you anyway. i discovered that, by now, there's no solution since it's a problem of debian sid. hope they fix it soon.

thanks again.