Amarok doesn’t play MP3 - Crashes while asking you to download the codecs.
Erm, sorry for the long title.
I don’t know about you but on my Feisty Fawn Ubuntu, whenever I try clicking and dragging an MP3 into the playlist, Amarok just freezes. At times it shows me a small dialog box asking me to ‘Install MP3 Support’ or ‘No’, but clicking any of those makes it even more unresponsive that I have to kill it.
I found one tip at the Ubuntuforums asking to run the MP3 script directly from /usr/lib/amarok directory. I don’t know if it’ll work for you but it didn’t for me. Amarok still crashes.
At this bug report of the same issue, but reported on Edgy (Seems a problem with Ubuntu alone though), a commenter suggests to install the libxine-extracodecs package manually by Synaptic or Apt methods.
Here’s the apt code for it:
sudo apt-get install libxine-extracodecs
This method worked for me. But I hope they fix this bug up quick, got my nerves nearly.
Hasnt it always been the case with Ubuntu (and most linux distros) that you have to install mp3 codecs in addition to the OS ?
Sam
21 Apr 07 at 3:52 am
Yes you definitely have to but thats not what am talking about. Usually when you attempt the play an MP3 without installing codecs (libxine-extracodecs specifically), Amarok picks up the missing requirement and starts a wizard to assist you in automatically getting the codecs from somewhere. Now that script got buggy I guess.
Harsh J
21 Apr 07 at 5:51 am
worked fine for me on herd2. It used to ask me to download the required codecs.
Guess I am the one who usually misses the bugs. Use some better players like mpc or mp3blaster till then.
mehul
29 Apr 07 at 5:25 pm
I had faced the same bug in Ubuntu 7.04. Amarok would freeze at the dialog box ‘Install MP3 Support’ or ‘No’.
Installing libxine-extracodecs fixed the problem for me as you suggested.
Thanks
Shourya
30 Apr 07 at 12:42 am
I had the same problem and sudo apt-get install libxine-extracodecs - worked for me too. Thanks.
Kahlil
30 Apr 07 at 7:56 pm
in mine, it would give an option to install mp3 codecs and after installation it asked amarok to be restarted. but never worked. after installing libxine-extracodecs it worked like a charm. Thanks.
avik
11 Jun 07 at 11:47 pm
Worked for me! Thanks!
Sumeet
26 Jul 07 at 6:52 pm
I too having the same problems, I will try and leave my comments.
Manish Sinha
25 Aug 07 at 2:41 pm
thanks a lot all, installing libxine-extracodecs helped me to fix this problem. i’m really amazed by amarok, fits perfectly for me
mxms
14 Apr 08 at 6:21 pm