(FIXED) no mp3 playback with Amarok and xine engine... help

[mikeycal]

Ok -- well it looks like Amarok now uses the Xine engine instead of gstreamer....(Still not sure why they switched to xine when gstreamer was working so well)

Anyway, I have installed all the appropriate xine deb packages -- libxine-extracodecs and libmad0 -- and the xine engine is set as the default in Amarok but when I try to play an mp3 nothing plays.

Is there any way to get the xine engine to work with mp3s? Or will I just have to install the gstreamer engine to get mp3 playback working?

thanks for any help...

[sky]

Re: no mp3 playback with Amarok and xine engine... help

Hi,

I got it working on my 64bits (not easy usually) really easilly and automatically by installing easy-ubuntu which is a python script designed to help all these kinds of install...

You can find it at : http://easyubuntu.freecontrib.org/

Hope it helped

[mikeycal]

Re: no mp3 playback with Amarok and xine engine... help

Thanks for the link. I don't think it will fix my problem though because I am using all the same repositories as easyubuntu uses.

Coincidentally, I wrote a custom Bash script that automatically sets up the all the repositories and installs all my favorite software. I did it mainly so I could send it to my friends so they too could just get all the cool stuff installed automatically. Everything seems to work perfectly except for the Mp3 playback using the xine engine in amarok...

By the way, here is my script... one thing I couldn't figure out how to do was import the repository key (any ideas?):

It replaces the source.list file with my source.list file and installs all kinds of junk.


Install.sh

sleep 2
echo 
echo
echo Please type in your PASSWORD at the prompt.
echo Your password WILL NOT be displayed on the screen for security purposes.
echo 
sleep 3
sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list-old
sudo mv -f ~/Desktop/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list
echo Downloading and Installing New Software...
sleep 3
echo 
echo
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install linux-686-smp
## I need to figure out how to import the repository key...
## all this stuff should be on one line...
sudo apt-get -y --allow-unauthenticated install firefox flashplugin-nonfree acroread mozilla-acroread acroread-plugins msttcorefonts libxine-extracodecs kaffeine-mozilla gimp sun-java5-jre sun-java5-fonts sun-java5-plugin samba w32codecs wine cabextract ktemperature
echo 
echo
echo Please type your password again if it asks for it...
echo
echo 
sleep 3
echo Type the number 3 and press enter
sudo update-alternatives --config java
sudo update-flashplugin
echo
echo
sleep 3
echo Now I am going to check for security updates.
echo
echo
sleep 3
sudo apt-get -y upgrade

echo 
echo 

sleep 5

echo You are now up-to-date!

sleep 
echo
echo Talk to you later! -- Linux
sleep 3

echo 
echo Setting up Internet Explorer
wget [url]http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/downloads/ies4linux-2.0beta6.tar.gz[/url]
tar -xzvf ies4linux-2.0beta6.tar.gz
sh ~/Desktop/ies4linux-2.0beta6/ies4linux

sources.list

##wineHQ repository
deb [url]http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt[/url] dapper main 
##multiverse
deb [url]http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] dapper multiverse 
## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb [url]http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] dapper-updates main restricted 
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb-src [url]http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] dapper-updates main restricted 

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'universe'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
deb [url]http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] dapper universe 
# deb-src [url]http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] dapper universe 

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb [url]http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] dapper-backports main restricted universe multiverse 
# deb-src [url]http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/[/url] dapper-backports main restricted universe multiverse 

# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb [url]http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] dapper-security main 
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb-src [url]http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] dapper-security main 
deb [url]http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] dapper-security universe 
# deb-src [url]http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu[/url] dapper-security universe 

## PLF REPOSITORY (Unsupported. May contain illegal packages. Use at own risk.)
deb [url]http://packages.freecontrib.org/ubuntu/plf[/url] dapper free non-free
deb-src [url]http://packages.freecontrib.org/ubuntu/plf[/url] dapper free non-free

[Fenyx]

Re: no mp3 playback with Amarok and xine engine... help

The GStreamer back-end is unmaintained/broken in KDE 3.5.3, last I heard. It's strange that Amarok won't play mp3s after installing libxine-extracodecs. (Btw, I don't think libmad0 is needed anymore).

If you don't mind me asking, is that your sources.list? How were you able to install libxine-extracodecs, since it's found in the dapper multiverse repository (not dapper-backports multiverse)? I can't seem to find the multiverse repository in your sources.list, aside from the one in dapper-backports.

[mikeycal]

Re: no mp3 playback with Amarok and xine engine... help

If you don't mind me asking, is that your sources.list? How were you able to install libxine-extracodecs, since it's found in the dapper multiverse repository (not dapper-backports multiverse)? I can't seem to find the multiverse repository in your sources.list, aside from the one in dapper-backports.

You were right. I accidentally deleted the WineHQ repo and Mutiverse repo when I copied the sources.list for posting -- I modified the previous post so it is correct now.

thanks...

[Fenyx]

Re: no mp3 playback with Amarok and xine engine... help

I see. I'm still baffled that it won't work. Is there anything special we need to know about your system? I can't seem to figure out the problem since you already did what I usually advise people asking about mp3 support (install libxine-extracodecs, install amarok-xine, make sure xine is selected, etc.)

Btw, I take back what I said about libmad0. I also have that installed.

[mikeycal]

Re: no mp3 playback with Amarok and xine engine... help

As an additional note, I am using the --allow-unauthenticated option for apt-get because I couldn't remember how to add the PLF repository key.

Having said that, I didn't experience any errors on the install. Minus not being able to authenticate the plf packages -- which is being forced to ignore.

I am wondering if the problem could be caused by:

1) The xine-lib (or some other package) update from the security repo
2) the order which I am installing -- currenlty I am doing an update only after installing all my PLF, universe, multiverse, and backport debs.
3) It is always posible that the repository that I am using has a broken deb package.

thanks for your help.

[Fenyx]

Re: no mp3 playback with Amarok and xine engine... help

1. AFAIK, Kubuntu doesn't use xine-lib, but libxine. But I don't think that matters much in the situation
2. could it be possible that something from PLF conflicts with the main repositories?

This is really mind-boggling...

[xoseramus]

Re: no mp3 playback with Amarok and xine engine... help

I install xmms and was all, what's the matter i played my mp3 whit out problems

[Fenyx]

Re: no mp3 playback with Amarok and xine engine... help

One last attempt to look for the cause of your problem:

In the engine settings, Amarok is set to use xine Engine right? is the output plugin set to Autodetect? At least in my system it's set like that.

[mikeycal]

Re: (FIXED) no mp3 playback with Amarok and xine engine... help

I discovered that if I do an Kubuntu software update from "security" and "update" repositories before I install the outside software -- i.e. xine-extracodecs -- everything works fine.

So just make sure your kubuntu install is up-to-date before installing software from PLF or other repositories.

Thanks for the help...