Mp3 support for amaroK in (k)ubuntu linux

It took me awhile to find out how to get mp3 support in amaroK, so I thought I’d share how I did it. It’s quite simple. In order for this to work you must already have mp3 support in other non-xine applications. To find out how to do that you can go here.

Once you are sure you have mp3 support in non-xine applications, all you have to do is install the libxine-extracodecs package:

sudo aptitude install libxine-extracodecs

Now just restart amaroK, and you should be good to go.

If this doesn’t work, you can try running

/usr/lib/amarok/install-mp3

If it still doesn’t work, try running amarok as root. If it successfully plays mp3s when run as root, try this:

mkdir ~/.xine/plugins/ && cp -r /usr/lib/xine/plugins/1.1.4/ ~/.xine/plugins/

That command copies the plugins installed for the root user into your home directory. You should now be able to run amarok like usual (as a user) and play mp3s.