JuK and amaroK don't play MP3s

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Tuesday, November 22nd 2005, 9:58am

I'm having issues with the KDE media players. My sound works perfectly (soundblaster platinum), and I can hear the various bings that KDE sends at me, all of my YaST configuration tests work fine, and I can even hear sound in games through Cedega. But I can't play MP3s.

amaroK just scrolls on down my playlist with a fraction of a second on each song and goes 'playlist finished' (without actually playing anything) and JuK 'plays' the song, but the timestamp is 00:-1/00:-1 and the song stays at the start indefinitely, not playing. This is really rather frustrating, I've tried plenty of MP3s, all of which I know are good.

Any ideas, anyone?

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apappasmurf

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Tuesday, November 22nd 2005, 11:08am

Hi!
You might try installing these codecs.

sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.8-plugins
sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.8-lame
sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.8-ffmpeg
sudo apt-get install w32codecs
sudo apt-get install libdivx4linux
sudo apt-get install lame
sudo apt-get install sox
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
sudo apt-get install mjpegtools
sudo apt-get install vorbis-tools
gst-register-0.8

Hope this is of some help.

Regards

TonyS

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pooryorick

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Tuesday, November 22nd 2005, 11:39am

Unfortunately I'm running SuSE... No apt-get for me. Thanks for the tip though, I'll see what I can do.

Well, I have all of the gstreamer segments, as well as sox... The rest appear to be encoding or video tools...

No luck. I picked up Banshee along the way, and it has the same problem of stopping as soon as a file starts...

This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "pooryorick" (Nov 22nd 2005, 11:55am)

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pip

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Wednesday, November 23rd 2005, 12:49am

The mp3 decoder codecs aren't installed by default (because of licensing issues I believe).

Just use YaST to install the packages that apappasmurf suggested and you should be fine.

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pooryorick

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Wednesday, November 23rd 2005, 4:28am

They aren't available through YaST, and I'm having a hard time finding a decent third-party apt repository for SuSE 10.0... I think I may just give up and install Ubuntu.

Thankyou for the help though both of you, it's appreciated.

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pip

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Wednesday, November 23rd 2005, 12:34pm

Before you do, it might be worth trying http://amarok.kde.org/amarokwiki/index.p…SUSE_Linux_10.0

but do try Ubuntu or Kubuntu, they're very good

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apappasmurf

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Thursday, November 24th 2005, 2:36pm

Hi!
You might like to try this tutorial on apt4rpm for SUSE at
l
www.linuxquestions.org/questions/answers.php

Scroll down to Applications/GUI/Multimedia then down to apt4rpm for SUSE.
There is a link to the package.

Hope this is of some help.

TonyS

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apanjocko

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Monday, December 5th 2005, 4:10pm

There is no license issues with decoding mp3's, only encoding.
/D

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sandaili

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Wednesday, January 2nd 2008, 11:35pm

True, but....

Yes, but since the decoders are not "free" or open source, they don't include them with basic installations. So you have to go find them on your own.

Sandaili

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toad

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Thursday, January 3rd 2008, 12:22pm

google open suse and mp3 and ye shall find...

running on Debian Etch

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sandaili

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Thursday, January 3rd 2008, 11:09pm

I should have clarified; I can play mp3s (was the first thing I ever installed on here, all the codecs). I just can't get juk to play them.

Realplayer, Amarok, all the other players work. It's just Juk that when I press play, nothing happens.

Sandaili

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toad

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Monday, January 7th 2008, 6:19pm

Sorry mate, can't help you 'cos I never ran Juk. Sounds like a Juk configuration problem. Only a suggestion, how about starting it from the command line. You will be able to see any errors it throws up when attempting to play MP3s.

running on Debian Etch

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