Comments on: Amarok doesn’t play MP3 - Crashes while asking you to download the codecs.

By: mxms

mxms — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:51:30 +0000

thanks a lot all, installing libxine-extracodecs helped me to fix this problem. i’m really amazed by amarok, fits perfectly for me

By: Manish Sinha

Manish Sinha — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 09:11:29 +0000

I too having the same problems, I will try and leave my comments.

By: Sumeet

Sumeet — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:22:40 +0000

Worked for me! Thanks!

By: avik

avik — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 18:17:32 +0000

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.

By: Kahlil

Kahlil — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:26:01 +0000

I had the same problem and sudo apt-get install libxine-extracodecs - worked for me too. Thanks.

By: Shourya

Shourya — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 19:12:09 +0000

I had faced the same bug in Ubuntu 7.04. Amarok would freeze at the dialog box â€˜Install MP3 Supportâ€™ or â€˜Noâ€™.
Installing libxine-extracodecs fixed the problem for me as you suggested.
Thanks

By: mehul

mehul — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 11:55:59 +0000

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.

By: Harsh J

Harsh J — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 00:21:12 +0000

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.

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 22:22:15 +0000

Hasnt it always been the case with Ubuntu (and most linux distros) that you have to install mp3 codecs in addition to the OS ?