Amarok 2 fails to play music files (almost all ... )

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I installed Amarok 2 yesterday, but have this strange problem that it doesn’t want to play music files. It’s apparently not simply a problem with the sound output, the time indicator doesn’t move at all.

This is true for pretty much all files I’ve tried (mp3, ogg, wav) *except (and weirdly enough) one *, which plays fine (it’s a short .ogg sound clip).

MY SYSTEM ENVIRONMENT:
OS: Linux 2.6.27.23-0.1-pae i686
System: openSUSE 11.1 (i586)
KDE: 4.2.4 (KDE 4.2.4) “release 2”

MY REPOSITORIES:

#  | Alias                     | Name                      | Enabled | Refresh | Priority | Type   | URI                                                                                | Service 
---+---------------------------+---------------------------+---------+---------+----------+--------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+-------- 
1  | Extra:_hujq_(nchu.edu.tw) | Extra: hujq (nchu.edu.tw) | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://ftp.nchu.edu.tw/Linux/OpenSuSE/repositories/home:/hujq/openSUSE_11.1/       |         
2  | Extra:_hujq_input_methods | Extra: hujq input methods | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/hujq:/input_methods/openSUSE_11.1/ |         
3  | Extra:_kzarog             | Extra: kzarog             | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/kzarog/openSUSE_11.1/              |
4  | KDE:42                    | KDE:42                    | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/42/openSUSE_11.1/                   |
5  | M17N                      | M17N                      | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/M17N/openSUSE_11.1/                      |
6  | OOo-Stable                | OOo-Stable                | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/OpenOffice.org:/STABLE/openSUSE_11.1/    |
7  | Packmann                  | Packman                   | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://packman.jacobs-university.de/suse/11.1/                                     |
8  | repo-non-oss              | openSUSE-11.1-Non-Oss     | Yes     | No      |   99     | yast2  | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1/repo/non-oss/                       |
9  | repo-oss                  | openSUSE-11.1-Oss         | Yes     | No      |   99     | yast2  | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1/repo/oss/                           |
10 | repo-update               | openSUSE-11.1-Update      | Yes     | Yes     |   99     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.1/

I can also provide outputs from running different sound files with ‘amarok --debug’ from the shell, but they are quite long.

2

install xine-phonon-backend and set Xine as backend in KDE4 control center -> Multimedia -> Backend

3

Great, thanks! Now my .ogg and .wav files at least play fine.

Do you happen to know what I need to install for .mp3 files? I remember for Amarok 1, there was a package Amarok-xine (from Packman repo) that needed to be installed, but there doesn’t seem to be anything codec-related for Amarok 2.

4

install the libxine libs from packman

5

Do you happen to know which libs I need in addition to the ones I already got?


S | Name               | Type    | Version         | Arch   | Repository          
--+--------------------+---------+-----------------+--------+---------------------
  | libxine-devel      | package | 1.1.16.3-0.pm.3 | i686   | Packman             
  | libxine-devel      | package | 1.1.16.3-0.pm.3 | i586   | Packman             
  | libxine-devel      | package | 1.1.15-23.3.3   | i586   | openSUSE-11.1-Update
  | libxine-devel      | package | 1.1.15-20.8     | i586   | openSUSE-11.1-Oss   
i | libxine-devel      | patch   | 582             | noarch | openSUSE-11.1-Update
v | libxine1           | package | 1.1.16.3-0.pm.3 | i686   | Packman             
v | libxine1           | package | 1.1.16.3-0.pm.3 | i586   | Packman             
i | libxine1           | package | 1.1.15-23.4.1   | i586   | openSUSE-11.1-Update
v | libxine1           | package | 1.1.15-23.3.3   | i586   | openSUSE-11.1-Update
v | libxine1           | package | 1.1.15-20.8     | i586   | openSUSE-11.1-Oss   
i | libxine1           | patch   | 856             | noarch | openSUSE-11.1-Update
  | libxine1-aa        | package | 1.1.16.3-0.pm.3 | i686   | Packman             
  | libxine1-aa        | package | 1.1.16.3-0.pm.3 | i586   | Packman             
  | libxine1-arts      | package | 1.1.16.3-0.pm.3 | i686   | Packman             
  | libxine1-arts      | package | 1.1.16.3-0.pm.3 | i586   | Packman             
  | libxine1-codecs    | package | 1.1.16.3-0.pm.3 | i686   | Packman             
  | libxine1-codecs    | package | 1.1.16.3-0.pm.3 | i586   | Packman             
  | libxine1-directfb  | package | 1.1.16.3-0.pm.3 | i686   | Packman
  | libxine1-directfb  | package | 1.1.16.3-0.pm.3 | i586   | Packman
  | libxine1-esd       | package | 1.1.16.3-0.pm.3 | i686   | Packman
  | libxine1-esd       | package | 1.1.16.3-0.pm.3 | i586   | Packman
v | libxine1-gnome-vfs | package | 1.1.16.3-0.pm.3 | i686   | Packman
v | libxine1-gnome-vfs | package | 1.1.16.3-0.pm.3 | i586   | Packman
i | libxine1-gnome-vfs | package | 1.1.15-23.3.3   | i586   | openSUSE-11.1-Update
v | libxine1-gnome-vfs | package | 1.1.15-20.8     | i586   | openSUSE-11.1-Oss
  | libxine1-jack      | package | 1.1.16.3-0.pm.3 | i686   | Packman
  | libxine1-jack      | package | 1.1.16.3-0.pm.3 | i586   | Packman
v | libxine1-pulse     | package | 1.1.16.3-0.pm.3 | i686   | Packman
v | libxine1-pulse     | package | 1.1.16.3-0.pm.3 | i586   | Packman
i | libxine1-pulse     | package | 1.1.15-23.3.3   | i586   | openSUSE-11.1-Update
v | libxine1-pulse     | package | 1.1.15-20.8     | i586   | openSUSE-11.1-Oss
  | libxine1-sdl       | package | 1.1.16.3-0.pm.3 | i686   | Packman
  | libxine1-sdl       | package | 1.1.16.3-0.pm.3 | i586   | Packman
6

libxine1 and libxine1-codecs from packman

7

Sorry, my mistake. I thought I had gotten all Amarok/Xine-related packages from Packman, but apparently not libxine. :stuck_out_tongue:

Thanks for your help, everything works great now! lol!