Sound in Amarok 2.0.2 and Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04

I really like Amarok, but apparently in Ubuntu 9.04 Gnome as a Desktop, when installing amarok it does not play sound at all. After some investigation, apparently amarok uses Phonon and you need to make sure you have the xine phonon backend. But that apparently is not enough. Installing xine-console solves the problem. I’ve read that installing xine-ui solves the problem as well.

Although I love the simplicity of Gnome, there are some Kde applications that simply rock, name it:

  • Amarok
  • Kile
  • and Kopete, that apparently it has video built in, something that pidgin has not yet.

Yes, you can have Gnome Desktop and use Kde applications.

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12 Responses to “Sound in Amarok 2.0.2 and Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04”

  1. Lefty Says:
    June 9, 2009 at 8:11 am | Reply

    When trying to play a file I couldn’t listen to any music! I checked my system’s sound configuration and it all seemed OK. I was able to play the files on other multimedia players, listen to music on Firefox, etc.

    To solve the problem, all I needed to do was download and install two additional packages: libxine1-ffmpeg and phonon-backend-xine ( in most cases phonon will be already installed ).You can find these on Synaptic, or just type in the Terminal:

    $ sudo apt-get install libxine1-ffmpeg phonon-backend-xine

    Now Amarok2 is working like a charm!

  2. MarkoSisak Says:
    June 18, 2009 at 5:08 pm | Reply

    Hi,

    thank you a lot for this!…I upgraded my ubuntu from 8.4 and couldn’t make amarok play files and after installing this it works like a charm.

    Great post, thank you :D

    Best regards

  3. Chanaka Says:
    June 20, 2009 at 4:46 am | Reply

    Hi…

    Thank you very much men.. It worked well..

  4. anggorodewanto Says:
    June 23, 2009 at 1:05 pm | Reply

    Thank you! Never thought the solution is so simple!

  5. Andrew Harvey Says:
    June 26, 2009 at 9:44 am | Reply

    I had to reboot.

  6. Donald Says:
    July 10, 2009 at 7:12 am | Reply

    Worked after reboot although playback skips forward about a half sec. on occasion (anyone know how to fix this?)

  7. Ric Moore Says:
    July 27, 2009 at 8:44 pm | Reply

    In a java application I’m using it is faulting out looking for plughw0,0. Is this due to phonon and what is a fix?? My USB headphones are not coming up either. I’m running karmic kubuntu using x86 platform. Thanx! Ric

  8. Alexisr Says:
    August 8, 2009 at 12:24 pm | Reply

    Tnks man !!! You solved my problem :D

  9. kamek Says:
    August 30, 2009 at 12:35 am | Reply

    thanks for the help!

    Installing libxine1-ffmpeg and phonon-backend-xine solved my audio problem :)

  10. Glenn Says:
    September 4, 2009 at 2:16 am | Reply

    Thanks! libxine1-ffmpeg was all I needed to get Amarok working on my system (ubuntu 9.04) as well.

  11. YUDIE Says:
    September 20, 2009 at 11:42 am | Reply

    WOOOW THANKS IT’S SO SIMPLE GOOD JOB, I HAVE BEEN SEARCH IN GOOGLE AND THIS IS THE BEST SOLUTION

  12. Dave Says:
    November 4, 2009 at 2:46 am | Reply

    Thank you! I really wanted to get this working and your simple post did a great job.

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