I am using Kubuntu and I play mp3's with Amarok. But
after reading a number of forums I decided not to use
arts or gstreamer. I do not know anything about the
package manager you mention. I have the universe
repository lines in my apt sources list and what I
made a point of getting via apt-get was all the files
for xine including xine-ui and also amarok-xine. With
that, I went into Amarok and told it to use the xine
engine and I have had no more problem with it. It
plays mp3's just fine now.
I hope this helps for you!
Cassandra
--- Keith Lelacheur <themercuryman@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am playing around with Kubuntu for the first time
> and ran into this
> message when
> trying to play MP3's in Amarok.:
>
> --------------------------
> The gst-engine claims it cannot play MP3 files. You
> may want to choose a
> different engine from the Configure Dialog, or
> examine the installation of
> the multimedia-framework that the current engine
> uses.
> --------------------------
>
> After some googleing I came across this in the
> Kubuntu FAQ:
>
>
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> How do I play MP3s?
>
> Install the *akode-mpeg* and *gstreamer0.8-mad*
> packages from the universe
> repository and *killall artsd* to restart the sound
> server. You will also
> have to restart Amarok and Kaffeine.
>
> In breezy you can add MP3 support to K3b by
> installing *k3b-mp3*.
>
>
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>
> Using the Kubuntu package manager "Adept" I am not
> able to find the
> "*akode-mpeg"
> *and *"gstreamer0.8-mad identified in the FAQ.
> *I hope there are some Kubuntu fans who can help me
> figure out what I am
> missing.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Keith
>
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