Re: [Sheflug] Amarok and MP3's

[Patrick Beaumont <lizardloop [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Beer Monster wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been playing with various flavours of Linux for sometime but 
> recently settled on Kubuntu 5.10 and due to my XP needing a rebuild 
> again it's prompted my desire to really move away from XP and onto 
> Linux.  So i installed Kubuntu onto another HD inside this machine and 
> GRUB worked nicely (except once it told me none of my drives were there) 
> and so i have a dual boot system.
>
> Things went very well, i upgraded my Nvidia drivers so my 6800Ultra 
> worked, i managed to install DoomIII and Quake IV (of which i can only 
> save when running on Root - i'll figure that later) but i cannot get 
> Amarok to play MP3's.
> What's the easiest way to get MP3's to play in Amarok?  I now rip as Ogg 
> but i still have 40gb+ of music that i really could do with playing.
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
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From what I can figure out you might have to use whatever package 
manager (I'm guessing Synaptic) you normally use and search for 
gstreamer0.8-mad and install that. That is if amarok uses gstreamer for 
its output.
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