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? > After doing a bit of config, setting the audio device, the music source, and selecting the database (sqlite, mysql, postgresql) for amarok to use I managed to get it to play mp3s without any specific configs. It required me to stop and start amarok a couple times to get the backend database working but once that was done it "just works".