Amarok on Fedora 10 not playing any song

[manuleka]

i've been using rhythmbox since i started with Fedora 10, but today i decided to have a look at Amarok (for KDE) ... i read a abit about it and how great it is under KDE, alot of people also say it works on Gnome but doesn't look as great, so i decided to give it a go

now installation went well (i used Yumex) ... and program loads up fine, automatically added all my tunes from Music folder, so i was all axcited untill i press play, none of the songs are playerble!

does Amarok need mp3 player plugins and stuff to be setup manually in Gnome (knowing that its for a KDE environment)?

if so, can anyone guide me through this, or give me any links on the how to...

cheers

[glennzo]

You could try using Amarok through a terminal command. You may see some error output that way.

[unamanic]

Kde (and amarok) use xine as it's backend by default. Either you need to install the xine-extras required to play mp3s or install phonon-backend-gstreamer and use systemsettings to change the default phonon backend to gstreamer.

[manuleka]

Originally Posted by glennzo

You could try using Amarok through a terminal command. You may see some error output that way.

[manu@fedacrylic ~]$ amarok
InnoDB: The log sequence number in ibdata files does not match
InnoDB: the log sequence number in the ib_logfiles!
090526 21:41:28  InnoDB: Database was not shut down normally!
InnoDB: Starting crash recovery.
InnoDB: Reading tablespace information from the .ibd files...
InnoDB: Restoring possible half-written data pages from the doublewrite
InnoDB: buffer...
Object::connect: No such slot MainWindow::showStatistics()
Object::connect:  (receiver name: 'MainWindow')
QLayout: Attempting to add QLayout "" to MainWindow "MainWindow", which already has a layout
link XMLID_7_ hasn't been detected!
link XMLID_7_ hasn't been detected!
Couldn't resolve property: radialGradient3986
link XMLID_7_ hasn't been detected!
link XMLID_7_ hasn't been detected!
Couldn't resolve property: radialGradient3986
QWidget::insertAction: Attempt to insert null action
QWidget::insertAction: Attempt to insert null action
QWidget::insertAction: Attempt to insert null action
QWidget::insertAction: Attempt to insert null action
QWidget::insertAction: Attempt to insert null action
QWidget::insertAction: Attempt to insert null action
QWidget::insertAction: Attempt to insert null action
amarok(6360) Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(0, 0) 
amarok(6360)/kdecore (trader) KServiceTypeTrader::defaultOffers: KServiceTypeTrader: serviceType  "AmarokContext/Animator"  not found 
link XMLID_7_ hasn't been detected!
link XMLID_7_ hasn't been detected!
Couldn't resolve property: radialGradient3986
link XMLID_7_ hasn't been detected!
link XMLID_7_ hasn't been detected!
Couldn't resolve property: radialGradient3986
link XMLID_7_ hasn't been detected!
link XMLID_7_ hasn't been detected!
Couldn't resolve property: radialGradient3986
link XMLID_7_ hasn't been detected!
link XMLID_7_ hasn't been detected!
Couldn't resolve property: radialGradient3986
link XMLID_7_ hasn't been detected!
link XMLID_7_ hasn't been detected!
Couldn't resolve property: radialGradient3986
link XMLID_7_ hasn't been detected!
link XMLID_7_ hasn't been detected!
Couldn't resolve property: radialGradient3986
Object::connect: No such slot FileBrowser::Widget::setDir( const QString& )
Object::connect:  (sender name:   'KBookmarkHandler')
Object::connect:  (receiver name: 'FileBrowser::Widget')
link XMLID_7_ hasn't been detected!
link XMLID_7_ hasn't been detected!
Couldn't resolve property: radialGradient3986
link XMLID_7_ hasn't been detected!
link XMLID_7_ hasn't been detected!
Couldn't resolve property: radialGradient3986
X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
  Major opcode: 20 (X_GetProperty)
  Resource id:  0x3e00064
X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
  Major opcode: 20 (X_GetProperty)
  Resource id:  0x3e00064
X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
  Major opcode: 20 (X_GetProperty)
  Resource id:  0x3e00064
[manu@fedacrylic ~]$

[creeping death]

su
yum install  xine-lib phonon*

[manuleka]

Originally Posted by creeping death

su
yum install  xine-lib phonon*

thanks .... amarok is cool... i kinda like it better than rhythmbox and i've only used it for about 20mins now... i wonder how better it looks on KDE

[creeping death]

this good...


i got this look because of a kdetheme called bespin...available at kde-looks.org
you can install kdebase , kdebase-workspace , kdelibs , kde-plasma-addons and kdeadmin ...and their corresponding devels...and then install the bespin theme...the theme offers lots of customization features like:

A button to close the middle pane (the brackets right of the timeline)
A nicer volume control
Cover art by clicking on the preview in the upper right corner
Mini player by clicking on the dot right from the timeline...and some more eye-candy...

and you're welcome