Mp3 Playback Freeze Hardy

[lastelement0]

Evening all,

My machine is a Dell Inspiron E1505, and I'm having issues in regards to mp3 playback regardless of app used to play them. Whenever i try to play an mp3 file the app i use (Amarok or Movie Player) will freeze. Mp3 playback worked fine in Gutsy but since updating it does not.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

[Nero147]

did you make sure to install the ubuntu-restricted-extras package for movieplayer and the kubuntu-restricted-extras package for amarok?

[jsast21]

did you make sure to install the ubuntu-restricted-extras package for movieplayer

Worked perfectly - thanks. But I did have to do a restart before the MP3s would play.

jsast21.

[traf]

I'm having a similar problem. Sometimes my mp3s freeze so I do a reboot, and then everything works fine. This seems to happen about once a day. What could be causing this? I use Amarok and Banshee and I have the same problem with both.

[traf]

Actually, I noticed this happens every time after I first close Banshee Player and then the next time I use Banshee Player, the MP3s won't play until I reboot Linux.

[marlboro05]

same for me on inspiron 640m Amarok will freeze and refuse to play mp3s till I restart

[kraymore]

i dont get mp3 playback in hardy at all. this is a fresh install with gstreamer0.10-* and w32codecs from medibuntu. it still refuses to playback mp3s. has anyone found a solution to this ? i even installed the pulseaudio tools from the hardy ubuntuguide, after doing that it played, but shortly afterwards, it ceased playback and hasn't returned. no playback after reboot either.

anyone found a solution ?