Comment 4 for bug 94539

This bug should not be closed. I was running Fiesty Fawn with the latest Amarok package from the repositories, and encountered the exact same problem. The first few seconds of M4A files were getting cut off, and the workaround described seemed to remedy the problem (although not satisfactorily, since I had to deal with crossfades on manual song changes, which I didn't want).

I have upgraded to Gutsy Gibbon and have yet to duplicate the bug, but I haven't used the new version very long.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4122827 is the corresponding thread on the Ubuntu forums for this bug.