Kubuntu Breezy and Amarok (iMac)

[Andrew Otte]

On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 3:28 am, Daymon Patrick Ray Jones wrote:
> I use a G3 iMac too. I had to make sure that I installed, using adept, the
> lib that allowed me to play mp3's. That was last month and I've had no
> problems. Sorry I can't remember which lib it was exactly. I've installed
> several.
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> Daymon Patrick Ray Jones
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> on 11/25/05 11:05 PM, Irena and Richard Jenkins at
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> richard.jenkins at internode.on.net wrote:
> > As the title suggests, I run breezy with my G3 iMac.  The machine has 256
> > meg of RAM.  It has served me well for some time ... and I am very
> > pleased generally with the ppc support.  Running Amarok however is giving
> > me problems.  I tried the Amarok help file ... but it doesn't load on my
> > machine.  Is there anyone on this list who has been successful with
> > Amarok installation and can routinely use it to play mp3 for example??
> >
> > I recognise that iMac have a different sound system ... but my sound
> > works very well - I get the most amazing 'broken bottle' sounds when I
> > try (without success) to play a downloaded mp3.  Any help would be
> > appreciated ...
> >
> > Alternatively would I do better to download and install XMMS?
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> > My copy of Amarok is up-to-date with the Adept package manager
> > (universes).
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> > Richard
Hey try the packages mentioned here
http://www.kubuntu.org/faq.php
There it says
How do I play MP3s?

Install the akode-mpeg and gstreamer0.8-mad packages from the universe 
repository and killall artsd to restart the sound server. You will also have 
to restart Amarok and Kaffeine.

In breezy you can add MP3 support to K3b by installing k3b-mp3.

That should get you going.
 
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Andrew otte
Laidley, Queensland
Australia
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