Amarok 2.0.1 does't play mp3's after upgrade to KDE 4.2.1

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Hi all.

Today I’ve upgraded my openSUSE 11.1 for x86_64 to KDE 4.2.1 from buildservice. As a result, Amarok 2.0.1 stopped playing mp3s. Clicking on the same track several times results in a “Too many errors encountered in playlist” message, and the ~/.xsession-errors file gets the following line for each click on a track:

QString::arg: Argument missing: Amarok - No track playing., 0:00
kdeinit4: preparing to launch
xine is asking to seek behind the end of the data stream
xine is asking to seek behind the end of the data stream
QString::arg: Argument missing: Amarok - No track playing., 0:00
QString::arg: Argument missing: Amarok - No track playing., 0:00
QString::arg: Argument missing: Amarok - No track playing., 0:00
QString::arg: Argument missing: Amarok - No track playing., 0:00
klauncher(19157)/kio (KLauncher): SlavePool: No communication with slave.

I’ve tried switching multimedia backends from xine to gstreamer and vice versa - no difference. Interestingly enough when I press “Test” in “Sound and Video configuration”, the test sound is played just fine and all KDE notification sounds also work. mpg123 and songbird play mp3’s just fine. Tried disabling pulseaudio via Yast2->Hardware->Sound, and restarted KDE - no difference in behaviour.

Also, Amarok used to play mp3’s just fine via the xine backend before KDE 4.2.0 updates on 26/02/2008. After that update, it would only play mp3s via the gstreamer backend. Now it cannot play mp3’s at all.

Any clues?

$ xine-config --version
1.1.16.2

$ rpm -qa | egrep “phonon|xine” | sort

libphonon4-4.3.1-28.3
libxine1-1.1.16.2-0.pm.1
libxine1-arts-1.1.16.2-0.pm.1
libxine1-codecs-1.1.16.2-0.pm.1
libxine1-esd-1.1.16.2-0.pm.1
libxine1-gnome-vfs-1.1.16.2-0.pm.1
libxine1-jack-1.1.16.2-0.pm.1
libxine1-pulse-1.1.16.2-0.pm.1
libxine-devel-1.1.16.2-0.pm.1
phonon-4.3.1-28.3
phonon-backend-gstreamer-0_10-4.3.1-28.3
phonon-backend-xine-4.3.1-28.3
phonon-devel-4.3.1-28.3
xine-browser-plugin-1.0.2-0.pm.0
xine-skins-1.0.3-0.pm.0
xine-ui-0.99.5cvs-20090203.pm.0821

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I also had that problem but i also have the same version of files that You have. What i did was the same as always, BIG CLEANUP of packages i don’t use like gstreamer (left bare minimum), before that i made a simple update of all possible packages. I’d recommend running amarok from konsole and look at the output, oh BTW i don’t have fluendo mp3 plugin.

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Mine is just fine. FYI my output:


libphonon4-4.3.1-28.2
libxine1-1.1.16.2-0.pm.1
libxine1-codecs-1.1.16.2-0.pm.1
libxine1-gnome-vfs-1.1.16.2-0.pm.1
libxine1-pulse-1.1.16.2-0.pm.1
phonon-4.3.1-28.2
phonon-backend-gstreamer-0_10-4.3.1-28.2
phonon-backend-xine-4.3.1-28.2
xinetd-2.3.14-129.28
xine-ui-0.99.5cvs-20090203.pm.0821
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Thanks for all replies, gents. I’ve applied todays KDE 4.2.1 update from buildservice, and “magically” amarok is playing mp3s again - without any config changes.