Amarok won't play mp3's even with kubuntu-restricted-extras

[jcphil]

The Amarok theme will play, but no mp3 will play at all. System sounds are fine. Not sure what else I should look for.

[whatthefunk]

Hmmm...did you restart your system after installing the restricted-extras? Make sure that your system has the packages lame and libmp3lame0. They should have been installed with the restricted-extras meta-package, but make sure.

[jcphil]

Those packages show as installed. Nothing happens if I select an mp3 in Amarok. The progress bar doesn't move or anything.

[whatthefunk]

Do your mp3 file names have the character "#" in them? If so, delete the "#".

Also, go to System Settings > Multimedia > Phonon > Backend. Which back end are you using?

[jcphil]

There are no extraneous characters in the file names of my music files. The Phonon backend is Gstreamer. And I forgot to mention that I've rebooted multiple times without seeing a change.

[PaulW2U]

The progress bar doesn't move or anything.

I used to see something similar with kaffeine on a PC that has long since departed this world. The fix was always to install some missing files.

Do your MP3s play when using another player such as JuK?

[jcphil]

Never mind. Permissions issue on my music files! Fixed now.

Thanks for the helpful suggestions, as always.

[tek_heretik]

I know this is not a solution but personally, I prefer Rhythmbox because it's far more simple, Amarok just want's to take you online for every single little thing related to the MP3, which I don't care about and people like me have data usage caps.

Edit: I guess one solution is to try the same MP3 with other players, if it plays with them, then go from there.

Edit 2: Oops, did not see you solved the permissions problem, nevermind, lol.