amarok: fast but quiet

[Rex Dieter]

Frank Elsner wrote:

> I need an advice for the following problem
> on my system running Fedora 14 and amarok-2.4.0-1.fc14.i686:
> 
> When playing MP3s the play-progress-indicator moves (too) fast without
> sound.
> 
> Other applications like clementine, vlc, mgp321 work without problems.
> 
> Where should I start to find the reason and solve the problem?

I'd venture you're missing codecs for whatever phonon backend you're using 
(clementine uses gstreamer directly).

I'd guess you may need xine-lib-extras-freeworld from rpmfusion, see also:
http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/MP3_on_Fedora_Core

-- Rex