I'm not sure what else to tell you.
I'm mostly trying to listen to mp3s.
sometimes a little box in the corner says "too many errors to play"...?

Well, you need to install the libxine1-ffmpeg package in Kubuntu to play mp3 tracks, mp3 this is a patented technology and the distributions do not install codecs by default for that reason.

I have the same problem, installing "Ubuntu restricted extras" does not fix it.

Oh, sorry, I thought you were using KDE by default

To have Amarok work under Gnome, you need to install the following packages:
libphonon4, but I guess that is already a dependency for Amarok,
phonon-backend-xine,
libxine1-ffmpeg for the mp3 codecs

(Note: ubuntu-restricted-extras doesn't install the codecs for xine but for gstreamer only, to have all restricted codecs for KDE that would rather be kubuntu-restricted extras)

then configure phonon correctly:

kcmshell4 kcm_phonon

in a terminal should get you to the phonon configuration. Alternatively, installing the systemsettings package should work, too.

Oookkk.
This is done through the terminal?

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sudo apt-get install libphonon4

Like that?

I'm pretty noobish...

Well, you can also do this in a GUI application like Synaptic which is the default package manager for Gnome

But yes, exactly like this