Well this is pretty strange, last night I was happily playing music with no problems, and today, I woke up and find out that Amarok won't play *any* song, at first I thought it was one of the songs I had deleted and hadn't removed it from playlist, but I manually located the file and they're all there, it won't play any song at all... so, any ideas?

Oh yeah, and after I try to play a few songs, I get an error message that says something like this: Too many errors found on the playlist.

I'm using Amarok 2.0.1
Ubuntu 8.10
KDE 4.1.4

dito

Check your Phonon settings:

"systemsettings" -> Multimedia (or Sound) -> Backend

It's possible that an upgrade in your distro has uninstalled the backend for some reason. On Linux you should be using the xine backend.

except as far as I can tell there is no "backend" option or field in the sound settings in ubuntu.

Pah wrote:except as far as I can tell there is no "backend" option or field in the sound settings in ubuntu.

You are probably looking at some other system settings (e.g. GNOME's). What you want is the KDE system settings, whose binary name is literally "systemsettings".

It says "systemsettings" is not installed at the moment...And I am unable to install it.

Pah wrote:It says "systemsettings" is not installed at the moment...And I am unable to install it.

Install kdebase.

ok, I realise that this is not a general problem, but I can't install kdebase either, it complains that dependencies can't be met. Am I the only gnome user that has this problem?

Before this is says that I am installing something that is not authenticated.

This is in swedish but you get the picture: "dependent on: ** but it will not be installed"

kdebase:
Beroende av: dolphin men det kommer inte att installeras
Beroende av: kappfinder men det kommer inte att installeras
Beroende av: kdebase-bin men det kommer inte att installeras
Beroende av: kdepasswd men det kommer inte att installeras
Beroende av: kfind men det kommer inte att installeras
Beroende av: konqueror-nsplugins men det kommer inte att installeras
Beroende av: konqueror men det kommer inte att installeras
Beroende av: konsole men det kommer inte att installeras
Beroende av: kwrite men det kommer inte att installeras
Beroende av: libkonq5 men det kommer inte att installeras
Beroende av: kdebase-plasma men det kommer inte att installeras

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6519558

As recommended, I mv'd .~/.xine to ~/.xine.bak and started Amarok, which created a new .xine and now all works.

That didnt work for me. Im frustrated that I cant play any mp3s in Amarok or Songbird. But I can play in xine. This blows.....javascript:void(0);

I still have the same problem I am using

I'm using Amarok 2.0.1
Mint 6
Gnome

I solved the problem by installing 'phonon-backend-xine'.