On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 22:43 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > I can play mp3s in xmms, but for some reason amarok says that it can't play > them. I would have thought that they needed the same package to decode, but > clearly something is missing. Any ideas what it might be? > > Anne Google is your friend. A quick search for " amarok +linux +mp3 +codec" yielded about 98000 results. Although I do not use amarok (yet) there likely is an answer in that list. Just for fun, I installed amarok, but found it is unable to play anything for me (I tried mp3, wav, and CD but all failed). Digging into the settings now. HTH Jeff