I'm using Amarok 2.2.1 on OpenSUSE 11.2.
I'm using the Xine backend.
I am not running any external scripts.
I do not have the "Now playing" plasmoid on my desktop.
I don't have cross-fading turned on.

No matter what songs I add to my playlist, hitting play simply skips through all of the songs until it reaches the end of the playlist.
This started happening after the update to 2.2.1.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Check if you have all necessary codecs available for the phonon xine backend, what you describe is most likely due to missing codecs.

Thanks for the reply Mamarock!

I don't know how it happened, but somewhere along the line something must have gotten uninstalled because I went back through the multimedia & restricted format installation guide on the OpenSUSE forum and then tried again and that did the trick! I'm not sure how that happened.

Thanks for your help! I feel a little embarrassed because I should have thought of that.

Hi,

I had the same problem and my solution was to install

libxine1-ffmpeg

Thanks Mamarok for the suggestion it definitely was the correct path.

Ubuntu Karmic 64 bit

CG

Hi,

I have Kubuntu on my computer, I have Amarok version 2.2.0 and use KDE 4.3.2 .


I feel I have the same symptom: I can create a playlist with my .wav files, but Amarok just skips all of them in a few seconds; and there is no sound.

I'm, well, how to describe myself?, I am just a simple computer user; I have no knowledge about computer languages or code.
My very computer-intelligent boyfriend installed Kubuntu on my computer 2 weeks ago and since that time I've learnt how to use the kpackage. That's about it.

My laptop is pretty new, my boyfriend (yes, him again) told me that my network card doesn't work always because it's too new. Maybe the same goes for whatever Amarok needs to play well?

Perhaps updating to 2.2.2 would help, but I don't know how.

Perhaps installing codecs for xine works, but I have no idea how to do that.

Perhaps reinstalling Amarok works... But how?

I have xine, at least I have seen in the system settings (> Multimedia) that xine is my backend bladibla and indeed if I use kpackage it "refuses" to download it because I already have it.

So if somebody could help me, please...

Aha,

So via the kpackage I still needed to install the kubuntu-restricted-extras-36 . (I am still working on this, it doesn't seem to want to install...)

Also, on the very first startup of Amarok I had seen a message that said something like "Amarok wants you to install some updates", but at that time I had to click that message away and I couldn't find it anymore. Now I found it... It had become a small button on the right in my task bar, a globe with an arrow on it. These updates are now installed and it tells me to restart the Amarok.

Solved. It works.
I don't know what did the trick; but I guess the kubuntu-restricted-extras was imported to install anyway.

I had the same problem and my solution was to install

libxine1-ffmpeg

Just wanted to thank you, that did the trick for me as well. Ubuntu 9.10, Amarok 2.2.0. It played .ogg files well, but skipped through mp3 files. Install libxine1-ffmpeg, works like a charm.