Amarok doesn't play anything - immediately skips over to the next track

[Mathilda Hartnell]

Binary package hint: amarok

When attempting to play anything in Amarok, it doesn't play a single sound, instead skipping over to the next track, and the next one, and so on until it reaches the end of the playlist.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Nov 7 16:08:22 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: amarok 2:2.2.0-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: amarok
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

[Erik Kronberg (eakron)]

Please make sure that the files exist, try re-importing a song and then play it. Could be an issue of a hard drive changing names or a path changing somehow.

[Lydia Pintscher (lydia-pintscher)]

you're likely missing the right codec
try playing an ogg file to find out

[Mathilda Hartnell (nekkoru)]

Okay, the file exists and it doesn't play it. Also, I re-installed the Ubuntu restricted codec pack, so MP3 playback shouldn't be an issue, but Amarok still refuses to play my music.

[Erik Kronberg (eakron)]

Could be a duplicate of #85791.

[Lydia Pintscher (lydia-pintscher)]

you need kubuntu-restricted-extras for amarok to play mp3

[Erik Kronberg (eakron)]

If installing kubuntu-restricted extras fixes this, please confirm that here.

[Mathilda Hartnell (nekkoru)]

Install kubuntu-restricted-extras to fix this.

[Boromir (peter-melichar)]

Hi, I can confirm that installing kubuntu-restricted-extras fixed it on my system. I am running Karmic Koala 64-bit.

[Nick Andrik (andrikos)]

I guess this was because of the libxine1-ffmpeg dependency, marking this bug as a duplicate of Bug: #432701