problems with mp3 player and amarok/kaffeine/...

[goodgod]

hi there,

I am a linux esp. Kubuntu NewBie. Here my problem:
I have a mp3-Player Hard-disk Player with 20GB from Thomson.
The connection to the PC is no problem. The player is beeing recognized as usb disk via 10 - 15 seconds.
In the media player I can easily create the playlist. But if I click the play button the player jumps in 30 second-steps all across the playlist until its end and stops. No sound is played.
What is wrong, what do I have to do? 

Thanx for your help in advance
goodgod

[Hawkwind]

Re: problems with mp3 player and amarok/kaffeine/...

<ubotu> For multimedia issues, this page has useful information: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats - See also http://help.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/deskto...asks-chap.html - But please use free formats if you can: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FreeFormats

That's straight from the bot on IRC. You should read those URL's and follow what they say and you should get mp3's working.

[sabbathpriest]

Re: problems with mp3 player and amarok/kaffeine/...

<ubotu> For multimedia issues, this page has useful information: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats  -  See also http://help.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/deskto...ks-chap.html  -  But please use free formats if you can: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FreeFormats

That's straight from the bot on IRC.  You should read those URL's and follow what they say and you should get mp3's working.There is a problem with that... The following do not show in the Adept Manager Package List for Kubuntu 6.06:
libxine-extracodecs
w32codecs
libarts1-xine
libakode2-mpeg

The only one on the https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats list of requirements that shows (and I installed) is libarts1-mpeglib

Any hints on where and how to get those four packages into my Adept Manager Package list and so into my system will be very much appreciated.

PS: One of the links suggested by Hawkwind (Awesome screen name, is it for the Band?) https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FreeFormats suggests to use Ogg Vorbis. Nice.... but what if you already have 50+ GiB of MP3s on your HDD?

[Josh]

Re: problems with mp3 player and amarok/kaffeine/...

You must first enable Universe and Multiverse repositories. Either look more closely at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats under the "Before You Start" section, or see this page https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats

Josh

[sabbathpriest]

Re: problems with mp3 player and amarok/kaffeine/...

Thank you Josh, you were right: a more careful read gave me the Universe and Multiverse repositories and the Canonical Comercial repositories. In turn, that gave me the libxine-extracodecs, libarts1-xine and the libakode2-mpeg packages, all of which installed fast and without issue... but there is one still missing from the list: win32codecs
Another friendly push in the right direction please?

[Josh]

Re: problems with mp3 player and amarok/kaffeine/...

I'm not positive, but I think it is in one of these repositories.

deb http://packages.freecontrib.org/plf/ dapper free non-free
deb-src http://packages.freecontrib.org/plf/ dapper free non-free

I just noticed that I posted the same link twice. My bad. The second one was supposed to be this one...http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/sources.php

You can manually add repositories to your /ect/apt/sources.list, but I would highly recommend just following the directions on the psychocats page; this will ensure that you can get a wide variety of popular packages.

Make sure you are searching for w32codecs, not win32codecs.

Josh

[Fenyx]

Re: problems with mp3 player and amarok/kaffeine/...

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Re...74003fde7daed5
Has instructions for downloading and installing the w32codecs.

You can download it directly from here (in case you don't want to add an extra repository for just one file):
http://packages.freecontrib.org/ubun...ree/w32codecs/
The filename is: w32codecs_20060611-1plf1_i386.deb
Then right-click on the .deb file in Konqueror and choose "Kubuntu Package Menu" > "Install Package".

[red van man]

Re: problems with mp3 player and amarok/kaffeine/...

Now a real challenge! How would an utter newbie like myself get Amarok to play MP3s and WMAs...without an internet connection? I can download the libxine-extracodecs package and bring it home on a memory stick, no hassle, except that the list of dependencies and dependencies' dependencies is daunting. Is there any one "meta-package" I could download that has the lot?

[kubicle]

Re: problems with mp3 player and amarok/kaffeine/...

Now a real challenge!  How would an utter newbie like myself get Amarok to play MP3s and WMAs...without an internet connection?  I can download  the libxine-extracodecs package and bring it home on a memory stick, no hassle, except that the list of dependencies and dependencies' dependencies is daunting.  Is there any one "meta-package" I could download that has the lot?

Actually just downloading and memory sticking them should be enough...if I remember correctly they don't need any extra depencies (that aren't already installed that is)

[sabbathpriest]

Re: problems with mp3 player and amarok/kaffeine/...

I installed automatix and got all the codecs necessary for MP3 playing. Intimidating but actually pretty simple.
http://www.getautomatix.com/