This is VERY frustrating. It just shouldn't be this hard. Especially since kubuntu should 'just work' out of the box.
After many days of frustration, many days because I have to give up and walk away out of sheer frustration, I finally have amarok playing a local .mp3 file. Eventually one takes the shotgun approach of installing just about anything that looks possibly useful - which is of course ultimately self-defeating for a 'clean' system. Ultimately the problem was no 'engine' selected in amarok's settings. <sigh> Why it would come or be set that way makes no sense to me.
Anyways ... </rant>
Currently, if I slip an audio cd into the drive, the icon comes up on the desktop. If I right-click the icon and choose play, up comes 'play' (kscd?), but I hear nothing. (The first song comes up and the progress timer counts up.)
If I 'play audio cd with kaffeine', it comes up with a blank (black) screen. I hit play, and nothing happens. i.e. No list of songs, no timer, nothing.
I know sound is working as the very act of selecting that, the machine warbles sounds at me. Playing an .mp3 also produces the expected result. (I copied a couple of .mp3 files to the local desktop, to isolate problems from any network issues.)
If I go into Amarok / filelist, nothing appears under /cdrom/. I see audiocd:/wav/, I can select the songs, add to playlist, it says playing, but the counter, doesn't.
At one point I was able to get into a dialogue box where I can choose files, but under the cd I see flac, wav, mp3, ogg, and who knows how many other formats. With the song titles under them. Just play the d*mn CD for Pete's sake! I believe I saw error messages at the time of the form 'you can only select local files' - IT DOESN'T GET ANY MORE LOCAL THAN THIS!
What sorts of things should I be looking for to make this very basic functionality work?
Thanks, and please pardon the frustration.
After many days of frustration, many days because I have to give up and walk away out of sheer frustration, I finally have amarok playing a local .mp3 file. Eventually one takes the shotgun approach of installing just about anything that looks possibly useful - which is of course ultimately self-defeating for a 'clean' system. Ultimately the problem was no 'engine' selected in amarok's settings. <sigh> Why it would come or be set that way makes no sense to me.
Anyways ... </rant>
Currently, if I slip an audio cd into the drive, the icon comes up on the desktop. If I right-click the icon and choose play, up comes 'play' (kscd?), but I hear nothing. (The first song comes up and the progress timer counts up.)
If I 'play audio cd with kaffeine', it comes up with a blank (black) screen. I hit play, and nothing happens. i.e. No list of songs, no timer, nothing.
I know sound is working as the very act of selecting that, the machine warbles sounds at me. Playing an .mp3 also produces the expected result. (I copied a couple of .mp3 files to the local desktop, to isolate problems from any network issues.)
If I go into Amarok / filelist, nothing appears under /cdrom/. I see audiocd:/wav/, I can select the songs, add to playlist, it says playing, but the counter, doesn't.
At one point I was able to get into a dialogue box where I can choose files, but under the cd I see flac, wav, mp3, ogg, and who knows how many other formats. With the song titles under them. Just play the d*mn CD for Pete's sake! I believe I saw error messages at the time of the form 'you can only select local files' - IT DOESN'T GET ANY MORE LOCAL THAN THIS!
What sorts of things should I be looking for to make this very basic functionality work?
Thanks, and please pardon the frustration.
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