MP3 Support is Broken In Feisty

Hi I can confirm that it is the Xine Engine that is broken in this case. Building Debs via Alien of daily (unofficial) Suse RPMs of both libxine1-1.1.4-061204 and the respective w32codec-0.52-1.i386 package resolves the problem.

It is however still not an ideal scenario as these are clearly non native packages and could result in conflicts at some near point in the future.

I also have this problem...

Is there any easy solution yet? ...or any work in progress to fix this?

Did you all install libxine-extracodecs ?
I can play MP3 files on feisty, no issue here...

I'll have to test the MP3-support script in amarok btw...

I've got the same problem as related in the first post in amarok on kubuntu Edgy 6.10:

"I have followed all of the guides (including this guide here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats) for enabling MP3 support in Amarok - and when I try to play and MP3 file Amarok offers to enable MP3 support - but after offering to do so when I click on "yes" it crashes and MP3 support is not enabled. I also tried following the manual guide on the Wiki for enabling MP3 support in Amarok/Kaffeine but still to no effect. I installed (and reinstalled) libxine-extracodecs and was still unsuccessful in enabling MP3 support. I have tried upgrading and downgrading both Kaffeine and Amarok - but again to no effect. I also have the latests Win32 codecs installed."

I've tried too to erase the .amarok folder in home, and still no luck

It's sad, i installed edgy to a friend and we don't know how to fix this. How could i know what's happening? How can i get error logs and then post them here?

MP3 works for me in feisty.
I believe libxine1-ffmpeg is probably the package that allows to play MP3,
and most videos.
paul@paul-Caspar:~$ dpkg -l *xine*
Souhait=inconnU/Installé/suppRimé/Purgé/H=à garder
| État=Non/Installé/fichier-Config/dépaqUeté/échec-conFig/H=semi-installé
|/ Err?=(aucune)/H=à garder/besoin Réinstallation/X=les deux (État,Err: majuscule=mauvais)
||/ Nom Version
+++-=============================
ii amarok-xine 1.4.5-0ubuntu5
un gxine <néant>
ii kaffeine-xine 0.8.3-0ubuntu6
un libxine-extracodecs <néant>
ii libxine1 1.1.4-1ubuntu3
ii libxine1-ffmpeg 1.1.4-1ubuntu3
un libxine1-plugins <néant>
ii libxinerama1 1.0.1-4build1
un xine-ui <néant>
un xinetd <néant>
paul@paul-Caspar:~$ dpkg -p libxine1-ffmpeg
Package: libxine1-ffmpeg
Priority: optional
Section: libs
Installed-Size: 3668
Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <email address hidden>
Architecture: i386
Source: xine-lib
Version: 1.1.4-1ubuntu3
...
 Libxine provides the complete infrastructure for a video/media
 player. It supports MPEG 1/2 and some AVI and Quicktime videos out of
 the box, so you can use it to play DVDs, (S)VCDs and most video files
 out there. It supports network streams, subtitles and even MP3 or Ogg
 files.

Running Fiesty (Kubuntu 7.04 beta)

First when I try to play mp3s in Amarok, the dialog pops up asking to install MP3 support. But Amarok crashes when doing so !!

Then I have manually installed 'libxine1-extracodecs' and 'libxine1-ffmpeg' codecs. Now I can play MP3s. I had to restart KDE for this.

Either way, the solution is less than desirable. Kubuntu/Ubuntu distros should be easy to use for 'humans' not just geeks.

Either
1) install Mp3 support by default, lot of us have much bigger MP3 collection than OGG collection
2) if there are restrictions preventing distributing codecs, then please have a easy / fool-proof way of installing these codecs

Erasing ~/.xine/, and reinstalling libxine1 seems to have fixed it for me.

Although I'm sure just erasing ~/.xine/ should work.

I fixed the problem installing the libxine1-ffmpeg package (with "sudo apt-get install libxine1-ffmpeg") .
Without restart kde, simply reopen amarok, and i have been able play MP3 without problem :)

This was broken for me, too. I fixed it by finding the libxine1-ffmpeg package for amd64. It was not in any of the archives referenced in my sources.list. I thought I had all the standard archives except universe listed. I don't know where it is served from--I just downloaded it by following the links in http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/libs/libxine1-ffmpeg

I look like it is only in universe, but it is referred to by packages not in universe. That is not good.

Same problem here - I could play mp3 files fine this morning, but for some reason it broke this afternoon. Deleting ~/.xine solved the problem, but I've no idea what started it. As an aside, this problem causes Amarok to crash intermittantly.

I tried installing xine-ui and oxine to get a more meaningful error message but couldn't get more than "Could not find demux plugin". Will post more info if it happens again.

I can't seem to get libxine to install for me at all. It keeps telling me:

Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: libxine1 ... and yet the package i'm trying to install is libxine1

I'm a propper linux noob so this is well confusing me. If anyone can help me I'd really appreciate it. Just want to listen to some mp3s :P

          just do " sudo apt-get install libxine-extracodecs "

I can confirm this bug as well. After upgrading from edgy to feisty, mp3s didn't play anymore and I got a plugin error for both kaffeine and totem. After removing ~/.xine everything works fine again for me.

Thank you so much guys. I use ryhthme box and amarok intermitently and only noticed this morning that amarok wasnt playing my mp3's. I already had all the packages that the other posters listed and reinstalling them did nothing.

This problem was fixed by following Tuxo's post. Deleting the two files in ~/.xine worked instantly. However, computer immediately jumped to 100% cpu with Amarok eating 40% by itself. Oh well, its playing!!

After a clean install( except for the home partion) of Feisty Amarok refuses to play MP3 files as mentioned above.
Amarok asks to install MP3 support and seems do so.
Deleting the file "catalog.cache" in ~/.xine resolves the issue

I had this problem and what Wim said on 2007-06-14 works perfectly . I can use amarok again. Thanks Wim.
John

I had the same problem as everybody here, and i deleted ~/ .xine and reinstalled libxine1 and the it worked for me!

But maybe its a good thing that this bug's going to be fixed so nobody else will have problems with it

I had similar problems, using Gutsy Tribe 4. Amarok freezes up when complaining of lack of mp3 support.

(But now, looking at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RestrictedFormats again, I see that I probably didn't follow the instructions completely. I only installed the "Ubuntu restricted extras" package as suggested in the main part in the beginning of the document: "Follow these steps to play most common multimedia formats, including MP3 ..."; install" Ubuntu restricted extras". I didn't notice that there were additional instructions several sections and mouseclicks away on other pages - "install the package libxine1-ffmpeg (which will install libmad0 as well)".)

However, after deleting the xine catalog.cache file and installing the "Xine extra plugins" as the description in the Adept Manager said "Codecs to play mp3 ... in Amarok ..." Amarok didn't complain anymore and happily played my mp3 tracks.

Same problem...and easily solved by just erasing ~/.xine/catalog.cache
which gets recreated straight away, but this time works fine

thanx for your help
Lor

On a newly install Gutsy Gibbon (7.10), this bug does not occur anymore. On another machine, that I upgraded from Feisty Fawn (7.04) to Gutsy Gibbon, this bug did not appear anymore. However, a half year ago, I remove the .xine directory on this machine that solved the problem for me.

Maybe it is time to close this bug, if nobody else complains about it.
It seemed to appear only in ubuntu 6.10 and/or 7.04
Deleting the .xine folder solved the problem

>Maybe it is time to close this bug, if nobody else complains about it.
>It seemed to appear only in ubuntu 6.10 and/or 7.04
>Deleting the .xine folder solved the problem

Well yes, deleting the .xine folder solved the problem. However, does the .xine folder get deleted automatically by somebody upgrading to a newer version of Ubuntu? It was surely not the case with the upgrade from Dapper->Edgy. The hint that one has to delete a hidden folder will only be useful for those finding this bug entry. Don't expect normal computer users to be able to do that. They will give up before and declare that Ubuntu does not work on their machine.

I my last comment I mentioned the upgrade path Dapper->Edgy. Should have been Edgy->Feisty.

I'm trying the new Hardy kubuntu, and seems that the problem with amarok is still not fixed. Mp3 support was not working

I had to add libxine1-ffmpeg package, because the request to install mp3 support was not installig the sw needed.

Leo

Codec notification support re-added in Kubuntu 9.10

Speaking of 9.10, I had the same problem after upgrading to Ubuntu Karmic. Deleting ~/.xine and installing libxine1 did the trick.