Kubuntu Breezy uses Amarok-gstreamer as default engine but gstreamer is broken for mp3

[Craig Sampson]

If trying to play streaming mp3, gstreamer does not work.

Gstreamer has had issues with mp3 streaming (and more) since before Warty - seems an odd choice then to use it as the
default engine for foundation KDE applications like Amarok when the xine based engine appears to work fine.

Craig

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

*** Bug 20908 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Matthew Carpenter (matt-eisgr)]

Arts would seems the way to go for kubuntu, since it has at least reached "good
enough" status, and clears up some audio-mplexing issues.
One such system should be selected and standardized on by all apps.
Unfortunately, I'm still seeing issues in ubuntu between xmms, amarok, mplayer,
Kopete, xine, etc..... They haven't been standardized in the past. That should
be something for dpkg --configure, to either offer the option, or select based
on whether its kubuntu or ubuntu.

Just my opinion. I use artsd to provide integration for my audio.

[Jonathan Riddell (jr)]

We use xine in dapper

[Stephan Rügamer (sruegamer)]

In Breezy you have to install the gstreamer0.8-mad libraries for playing mp3.
Dapper uses xine and needs libxine-extracodecs from multiverse.