amarok crash on mp3-driver install

[jaapkroe]

Hi,

As the title says, when I open an mp3 and amarok asks to update to get mp3-support it crashes

[Andrew1963]

Re: amarok crash on mp3-driver install

I am also suffering this problem. I can play non-MP3 files in Kaffiene, but this is ning so far for ot ideal. Please advise on installing MP3 support in FEisty. Searching the Web provides answers for Hoary and Dapper, but nothing so far for Feisty.

Andrew

[Andrew1963]

Re: amarok crash on mp3-driver install

Found the solution. Use Adept to install mpeglib and Amarok will play MP3s.

I am also suffering this problem. I can play non-MP3 files in Kaffiene, but this is ning so far for ot ideal. Please advise on installing MP3 support in FEisty. Searching the Web provides answers for Hoary and Dapper, but nothing so far for Feisty.

Andrew

[jaapkroe]

Re: amarok crash on mp3-driver install

Ok, adding the media libraries (such as mpeglib) manually fixes the problem.
But is this a Kubuntu bug or have I come to the wrong house and is this a amarok bug?

[padre999]

Re: amarok crash on mp3-driver install

Found the solution. Use Adept to install mpeglib and Amarok will play MP3s.
Andrew

Just for the books. Installing mpeglib did not fix the problem for me. Only after installing libxine-extracodecs amarok played mp3s on my system without crashing as described.

[lyall]

Re: amarok crash on mp3-driver install

Hi All
I looked at the directories on several Audio CD I have and found out that they have several formats to play.
In the defaults directory (root) are the WAV files, in the directories are CDA, FLAC, MP3, and Ogg Vorbis.

For WAV format see the following link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAV
for CDA format see the following link http://www.coolutils.com/Formats/CDA
For Flac format see the following link http://flac.sourceforge.net/document..._overview.html
For Ogg format see the following link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogg
For MP3 format see the following link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3

Do a Google search for more information about each format. They are a lot of sites for more info about each format.

I checked the file size for Bon Jovi - Keep the Faith - CD
for the file "I Believe"
in WAV it is 58.8 MB
in CDA it is 58.8 MB
in FLAC it is 36.6 MB
in MP3 it is 5.3 MB
in Ogg it os 4.4 MB

You have to decide which format you want you use and listen to.

Good Luck and have fun listening to the different formats

[Tynach]

Re: amarok crash on mp3-driver install

It is not a bug. MP3 is not an open source format, so is not included with Ubuntu. Install libxine-extracodecs to get support for MP3.

I think Feisty came with a program to install it without having to manually go through adept, but I'm not sure.

[dibl]

Re: amarok crash on mp3-driver install

You might want to also add medibuntu to your sources list, following the instructions here for your version:

http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/repository.php

They have some non-open/non-free-as-in-speech stuff available.