Hello, I'm new to this forum, and I already need some help
I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 and I recently switched from Gnome to KDE4. I have been using Amarok for a long time now, and I had MP3 support. Since I wanted a brand new KDE, I uninstalled any KDE program I had installed, including Amarok, to reinstall it later.
But in the process, somehow, amarok lost the ability to read MP3

I reinstalled xine, the xine engine, every single xine library, including libxine-ffmpeg, nothing worked.
Then I noticed that when running as root, Amarok could read MP3, so I tried to find why.
I uninstalled libxine-ffmpeg to have it installed by amarok when running as root (with that yellow box in the bottom left corner ), but it didn't work
I tried to build amarok from source, but it didn't work either
I tried to install other engines, such as helix and gstreamer, but it wouldn't get listed in the engine list (if anyone can help here this might solve my problem)
I browsed this forum and learned about /usr/lib/amarok/install-mp3, but even with ALL the permissions, it did nothing.

So now I'm running out of ideas, can anyone help ?

To sum up :
- I'm running kubuntu 8.04 with KDE4
- the mp3 support works as root
- amarok 1.4.9.1

thank you for having read this all

Finally I found a way to repair. I created a new user, and saw that "he" had MP3 support as root, so I guessed that was a problem from my session, so I just pasted the hidden files from this new user to my home directory v_v"
Yet, I still don't know what happened, I guess I should have made a copy of the files that have been overwritten, I dit it quite the hardy way (but am I not on ubuntu 8.04? )

Sorry for the trouble, it was solved quite quicly after I posted, but I had been on it for hours then

I've had the same problem.
The hidden files or folders are mostly to store application's configuration.
I suppose there's some permissions problem with a configuration file or something. I don't know what's happening but I found a solution that doesn't require you to create a new user and copy this hidden files/folders.

JUST DELETE THE .xine/ DIRECTORY IN YOUR HOME FOLDER

from terminal type

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rm -Rf .xine/

I don't know what caused the problem but deleting that directory worked for me  . I hope this helps someone else  .

I'm running amarok 1.4.9.1 in ubuntu 8.04 linux 2.6.24-21-generic