Amarok not playing mp3

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Mon Nov 21 14:13:47 UTC 2011


Tayfun Kayhan wrote:
> I've the problem that Amarok cannot play mp3 files and claims that
> phonon-backend installation must be fixed. It tries to load the package
> MPEG-1 mp3 decoder but cannot do it.

Install gstreamer-plugins-ugly from RPM Fusion Free.

(You may also want gstreamer-plugins-bad and gstreamer-ffmpeg for some other 
formats, but -ugly is all that's needed for MP3.)

Automatic codec installation currently doesn't work, at least for MP3, 
because of: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680809

        Kevin Kofler



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