Amarok does not play any media!

[raks1991]

I've been a Ubuntu user for the last 7 days and just switched from Vista.I've been loving it so far except for this tiny problem.
Amarok does not play media files at all.The pre-installed Rhythmbox with 10.04 works great.In Amarok,it isn't that I don't get sound. It just won't play. If I click a file, then click play it quickly goes through an amount of songs and then it tries to play all the songs in the playlist unsuccessfully.
I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx and Amarok 2.3.0(KDE 4.4.2) in a 32 bit system.

[damien_d]

I've been a Ubuntu user for the last 7 days and just switched from Vista.I've been loving it so far except for this tiny problem.
Amarok does not play media files at all.The pre-installed Rhythmbox with 10.04 works great.In Amarok,it isn't that I don't get sound. It just won't play. If I click a file, then click play it quickly goes through an amount of songs and then it tries to play all the songs in the playlist unsuccessfully.
I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx and Amarok 2.3.0(KDE 4.4.2) in a 32 bit system.

Ditto, though with 64-bit lucid.

[damien_d]

Found a solution that works for me:


damien@damien-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install libxine1-ffmpeg libxine1-all-plugins


-- Damien

[raks1991]

Hi Damien,
I tried what worked for you,but I get

E : Couldn't find package libxinel-ffmpeg.

[raks1991]

I figured it out.I hadn't installed Ubuntu restricted extras.That's why Amarok wasn't playing any files.The restricted extras can be found here.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats

Just run the installation file,it downloads all the files in the package(17) and after you're done,restart Amarok and it should work just fine.Thanks for the reply Damien.:)

[damien_d]

I figured it out.I hadn't installed Ubuntu restricted extras.That's why Amarok wasn't playing any files.The restricted extras can be found here.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats

Just run the installation file,it downloads all the files in the package(17) and after you're done,restart Amarok and it should work just fine.Thanks for the reply Damien.:)

Awesome :)

Can you mark the thread as solved? It might help someone else that comes across the same problem.

There are several bugs filed against amarok for this behaviour. All are marked as "invalid", but I'm going to ask for some sort of pop-up that says why the media isn't being played.

-- Damien

[jetta]

Found a solution that works for me:


damien@damien-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install libxine1-ffmpeg libxine1-all-plugins


-- Damien

thanks, its work for me too
(just fresh isntall to 10.04)

[maestrobwh1]

Also:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=766683

If you want everything about multimedia working.