Since upgrading to 2.09, most problems have disappeared. Scrobbling works, and the Music Explorer Playlist plugin works great! However, if I listen to something on the web before starting up Amarok, there is no sound in Amarok. If I start up Amarok first, no sound anywhere else.

This is most frustrating, but I've done a search and don't see anyone else with precisely this problem.

Amarok
Version 2.0.90
Using KDE 4.2.3 (KDE 4.2.3) in Jaunty Kubuntu, using Xine backend

This is a problem with your distribution, Ubuntu. You need to get rid of Pulseaudio as it doesn't work with the phonon-xine-backend, or use Pulseaudio together with the phonon-gstreamer-backend only. With a disclaimer: gstreamer is quite buggy, so it's not really the backend we recommend for now.

Yikes, I'm so confused. Is it better to remove Pulseaudio? I'll try that first, since I know how to do that -- and I can put it back if removing it breaks stuff.

But how would I go about using it with the phonon-gstreamer-backend. Is that a choice I can make in the Configuration menu in Amarok? Where I saw phonon-xine, there did not appear to be any other choices.

Off to remove Pulseaudio......

Pulseaudio is gone, along with Ubuntu desktop -- I hope I didn't need the latter! The problem appears to be solved, with a little test of a video on YouTube and then Amarok -- sound on both.

Thanks so much.