Amarok and mp3s

Anne Wilson cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk
Tue Mar 14 11:00:37 UTC 2006


On Tuesday 14 March 2006 02:01, Jeff Vian wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 22:43 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > I can play mp3s in xmms, but for some reason amarok says that it can't
> > play them.  I would have thought that they needed the same package to
> > decode, but clearly something is missing.  Any ideas what it might be?
> >
> > Anne
>
> Google is your friend.   A quick search for " amarok +linux +mp3 +codec"
> yielded about 98000 results.
>
> Although I do not use amarok (yet) there likely is an answer in that
> list.
>
> Just for fun, I installed amarok, but found it is unable to play
> anything for me (I tried mp3, wav, and CD but all failed).  Digging into
> the settings now.
>
You're quite right - my mind was still on other things.  It appears that I 
needed gstreamer-plugins-extra-audio from livna.  All's well now.  Thanks.

Anne
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