I was a bit frustrated that amaroK doesn’t come with MP3 support straight ‘out of the box’, but I guess that’s what patents and restrictions end up doing. Oh well, it isn’t too difficult to add MP3 support, so I won’t complain about it anymore.
One problem I did have though is with the lack of error message it gives when you try to open MP3s before they are supported. It made me think there was something wrong with the files that I had copied over from Windows. Just a simple error message stating that it was an unsupported format would be nice, rather than just skipping through every MP3 file until a ‘Playlist finished’ message appeared. Maybe its time to search amaroK’s bugs/feature requests and let someone know…
OK, so you want amaroK with MP3 support? Firstly, if you don’t have amaroK, you should install it using the ‘Add/Remove’ function under ‘Applications’. And then all you have to do is intall a few extra plugins and codecs using the terminal, by inputting:
sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly libxine-extracodecs
And that’s it, your MP3s are useful again!
Also, it seems to handle Chinese characters well, but I can’t get it to fetch lyrics for Chinese songs just yet. Something to do before next Karaoke night…
Thanks a ton mate ! That helped !
By: thasnipa on July 3, 2006
at 12:32 am
This works for most (if not all) sound applications. I use rythmbox and it works.
By: Random Guy on July 6, 2006
at 7:55 am
thanks man, all the other sites I found on google didnt help at all
By: Rob on July 8, 2006
at 5:02 pm
Thank you very much!!
By: gopal on July 9, 2006
at 4:25 am
Thanks alot man ! that was really helpful ! maybe you or i could repost this on linuxquestions i thin k that would help alot of people . thanks a ton again.peace.
By: Phillip on July 19, 2006
at 9:19 am
thanks a lot pal…. really useful
By: thouseef on July 23, 2006
at 12:51 pm
[...] * Image source : http://amarok.kde.com/ * 참고 site [...]
By: Tai Hyo’s Blog » Blog Archive » Ubuntu dapper의 amarok에서 mp3듣기 on July 23, 2006
at 6:59 pm
Hi there, if you wish to use Amarok with MP3-support on Ubuntu Dapper Drake, simply install Amarok and use Terminal Command Line:
$ sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly libxine-extracodecs
Or alternatively manually download the package gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly libxine-extracodecs and manually install.
By: EJ Hill on July 25, 2006
at 1:00 am
Thanks pal. Work’s fine!
By: tg on August 18, 2006
at 6:55 pm
[...] It took a while to dawn on me that perhaps it just couldn’t play mp3 files, because everything else on my machine can. Eventually I twigged and a quick google found that I’m not the first person to have this problem. Sure enough the fix presented on that page worked (after logging out and in again), but a useful error message from Amarok would have got me there a lot faster. [...]
By: My Green Life » Blog Archive » A Ripping Yarn, Pt. 3 on August 20, 2006
at 12:52 am
This didn’t work for me at first since I didn’t have the appropriate repository added to my apt-get sources list (/etc/apt/sources.list):
deb http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper multiverse
after adding this to the file and doing an update (sudo apt-get update) everything works swell. Thanks for the tip.
By: Grover on August 23, 2006
at 7:50 am
Very nicely done, short and to the point.
Grover – Thanks for the sources tip, saved me some googling.
By: Arsemis on August 26, 2006
at 2:11 pm
Thanks mate, great help.
By: fire on August 27, 2006
at 4:33 pm
Just in the nick of time. Thanks for the tip! Very useful indeed ^_^
By: Miko on September 5, 2006
at 4:27 pm
Me too. Thanks.
By: Karl the Grouchy Medievalist on September 6, 2006
at 8:16 am
cool dude its really hver helpfull……
but for Dapper add the link to apt source list:
deb http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper multiverse
then update apt-get
and finally get the plugins:
$ sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly libxine-extracodecs
By: Bishu on September 8, 2006
at 10:14 pm
thank u very much….i have been doing a lot of things to get this done.when i start amarok it used to say that it can’t play mp3 files and asked me if i wanted to get mp3 support.even though i said yes, it never worked….once again thanks a lot
By: simil on September 21, 2006
at 3:46 am
Thanks!!!!!!
By: Jordan on September 30, 2006
at 3:05 pm
Yet another thanks!! I’d been messing with this for something like 36 hours – yours was the only set of instructions that worked.
By: Scribbler on October 3, 2006
at 6:45 am
[...] http://winanga.wordpress.com/2006/03/18/amarok-mp3-support-in-ubuntu-dapper/ [...]
By: Amarok and mp3 in Edgy Eft « A Linux geek in Catalonia on October 28, 2006
at 10:41 pm
Hey, thanks for the easy tip. I just set up AmaroK on Edgy 6.10 and the mp3 support works fine here, too. I had searched for a long farrrrkin’ time for a way to get this working, but one simple command got it for me. Thanks!!
By: HeresJohnny on November 4, 2006
at 7:49 am
Thanks aloooooooooooooooooot man, i was getting the error that the amrok dont have a mp3 support and it asked whether you want to add mp3 support and i restarted it and amrok was throwing the same error but your thing worked thanx a lot
By: Nithin on November 9, 2006
at 7:40 am
It’s giving me this error
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly: Depends: libdvdread3 but it is not installable
Depends: libid3tag0 (>= 0.15.1b) but it is not ins tallable
Depends: libmad0 (>= 0.15.1b) but it is not instal lable
Depends: liboil0.3 (>= 0.3.6) but it is not instal lable
libxine-extracodecs: Depends: libmad0 (>= 0.15.1b) but it is not installable
E: Broken packages
By: Tor on November 9, 2006
at 9:48 am
I get the same error as well. Does anyone have a solution?
By: Anand on November 18, 2006
at 6:54 am
really great… how did you get the solution for this..? absolutely amazing… thanks a lot..
By: maverick on December 19, 2006
at 2:17 am
Thanks
By: Anurag Panda on December 21, 2006
at 6:46 pm
Thank you very much for the instructions on how to add the mp3 codec! You made my evening!
By: iPod User on January 5, 2007
at 12:04 pm
doesnt’ work for me… sigh
By: Seofita informatizzato on January 7, 2007
at 11:17 pm
Thanks dude! Saved me a lot of trouble there
By: Nemo on January 10, 2007
at 12:40 pm
Thats awesome dude !!
After all the searching and Struggling, when I got this one, I got it with ease.
By: Gopal on January 17, 2007
at 1:54 am
This didn’t work for me. Upgrading amarok-xine and all of its depdencies did, however.
By: Braden on January 20, 2007
at 12:39 am
none of it has worked for me
By: jennifer on January 23, 2007
at 12:20 pm
working for me now
i tried installing an older version of Amarok and that apparently made it corrupt
then i had to doa full removal and a full reinstall/upgrade
after that started Amarok again
this time it not only prompted for the mp3 support but also downloaded and installed it
now it’s all working
By: jennifer on January 23, 2007
at 11:37 pm
#add the link in following line to apt source list (using for example, sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list) :
deb http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper multiverse
#update apt-get
$ sudo apt-get update
#and finally get the plugins:
#no need of gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly in my case
$ sudo apt-get install libxine-extracodecs
It works!
By: Nengbing on January 30, 2007
at 6:08 am
I have been directing a lot of people to your site. Keep it up
By: reuben on February 7, 2007
at 11:34 pm
awesome! thank you so much
By: ctr on March 1, 2007
at 2:16 pm
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By: Christiaan on March 16, 2007
at 10:09 pm
Thank you, it works great.
By: Ryan on March 18, 2007
at 6:05 pm
Thanks! now my amarok plays very well!
By: MrMike on March 24, 2007
at 2:55 am
That was the ticket!
Thanks
By: Imbus on March 26, 2007
at 1:17 am
Thank you very much – I’m a linux noob who switched on release of 7.04, and you’ve helped me loads.
By: James H on April 20, 2007
at 6:34 pm
amarok kept crashing when trying to play MP3 on Feisty Ubuntu 7.04
Sure enough it works here too
Thx very big, U & Google saved me after 2 minutes !
By: ChiendeRue on April 24, 2007
at 7:54 pm
Worked in a snap! Thanks again.
By: Emily on April 29, 2007
at 1:10 am
I am a such a noob. Just figured out ’sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly libxine-extracodecs’ is online
Worked brilliantly then. Must shake off noob
By: jezi on May 6, 2007
at 4:02 am
it really helped man….good work!!!!
By: prasun on May 15, 2007
at 12:15 am
DANKE!
By: Jimbob on June 13, 2007
at 5:17 pm
Excellent, first google result and fixed it within seconds Cheers!
By: Evilpandasa on June 29, 2007
at 2:02 am
Thanks for info mp3 now playing, saved me hours of hair pulling
By: Rich on July 3, 2007
at 4:38 pm
[...] Kaynak [...]
By: Amarok Mp3 Çalsın ( Kubuntu - Fiesty Fawn ) « onur@breath ~ $ on July 12, 2007
at 9:56 pm
Thanks, that got my MP3 collection playing in no time. This should be supported natively in Ubuntu!
By: TeddY on July 15, 2007
at 12:57 pm
Worked like a charm, thnx
By: Medwyn on July 19, 2007
at 11:36 pm
THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOO MUCH !!!
By: Vetea Miklus on July 31, 2007
at 3:12 pm
Great dude it worked perfectly thanks! I was wondering what the f… is wrong with amarok it doesn’t play the radiostream
By: HGRazorRamon on August 4, 2007
at 4:21 am
thx man!
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at 6:08 am
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By: calToZyElully on August 26, 2007
at 10:56 pm
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By: Juniata on August 31, 2007
at 4:51 am
thanks….it really does work….
By: sudip on September 13, 2007
at 8:56 pm
Thanks for that. The Ubuntu community rocks.
By: Felipe on September 13, 2007
at 11:23 pm
Thanks! I got a little scared for a second there….
By: Derek on September 15, 2007
at 4:30 pm
Thanks A Lot! You’re the Best!
By: Carlo on September 22, 2007
at 6:47 am
Many grateful thanx!
You made my day…
Now it works!!!!
By: Doctor Kappa on September 25, 2007
at 7:11 am
[...] couldn’t find anything specific getting this to work on Gutsy Gibbon, but I found this post referring to getting it working in Ubuntu Dapper Drake. He suggested installing [...]
By: daves blog » Blog Archive » Fixing mp3 support for Amarok in Gutsy Gibbon. on October 5, 2007
at 1:06 am
Even works on Fedora 7 using:
yum install xine-lib-extras-nonfree gstreamer-plugins-ugly
By: NeonGen on October 13, 2007
at 11:48 pm
Okay, I did this and now amarok wont even open. Whats up with it??? Not only that but I’ve tried to install other players such as exaile, xmms and kaffiene and they wont play but they’ll open. When I try to play anything it freezes up and I have to terminate them. Please help me, I’m pretty new to this.
By: Drew wants to know... on October 15, 2007
at 12:35 am
Thanks soooo much bro. This has been a huge help…
By: Al on October 31, 2007
at 1:00 am
thank you
By: Deathstars on January 12, 2008
at 4:22 am
Thanks
By: Wardead on January 20, 2008
at 7:19 am
thx alot
By: eirik on February 2, 2008
at 12:14 am
Yay for google! Now My Amarok works
Thanks man.
By: Fraser Thompson on February 4, 2008
at 7:11 am
Thanks a lot, this really helped! Although, in this tutorial to fix amaroK, you might want to mention switching engines from yauap to xine.
By: Jacob on May 5, 2008
at 8:21 am
Thax a million! thats just what i was looking for!
By: Hevel on May 15, 2008
at 5:42 pm
Thanks a ton!!!!!!!!!
By: Parvathy on June 18, 2008
at 1:38 am
hi the extra codecs is outdated
sudo apt-get install libxine1-ffmpeg
this is the new solution …thanx
By: tally on September 20, 2008
at 10:41 am
[...] podia reproducir archivos mp3. Primero pense que me faltaba alguna libreria como las que se indican aqui, pero nada. Ademas el soporte para mp3 ya lo tenia, simplemente dejo de funcionar de repente.Lo [...]
By: Amarok no reproduce MP3 « Blogging googling on November 9, 2008
at 5:26 am
noo thats not working :/
By: Ossi Ranta on June 13, 2009
at 7:01 pm
now I’ll be tuned..
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at 12:33 pm