[nflug] amarok, redhat and mp3's

John Nichel john at kegworks.com
Tue Nov 22 13:35:21 EST 2005


Jesse Jarzynka wrote:
> John Nichel wrote:
> 
>> Has anyone had any success getting amarok to play mp3's on a Redhat 
>> system (RHEL3 here).  I was reading the article about it the other 
>> night in this month's LJ, and figured I'd give it a try.  I can play 
>> mp3's currently with XMMS, but amarok keeps complaining that the helix 
>> engine doesn't support it, and I'll be damned if I can find any info 
>> on that (other than helix playing mp3's is supported by RealPlayer, 
>> which I also have the latest version installed).
>>
> Change your engine under the Settings-Configure Amarok menu. Make sure 
> you have the amarok-engines package installed, and the amarok-xine 
> engine installed if you want to use that one. I use that one and it 
> works great. I've never even seen Helix as an engine for Amarok, see 
> what it's using.

The xine engine did it.  This is what I get for using yum.  ;)

-- 
John C. Nichel IV
Programmer/System Admin (ÜberGeek)
Dot Com Holdings of Buffalo
716.856.9675
jnichel at dotcomholdingsofbuffalo.com
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