Ubuntu Gutsy - Amarok Suddenly Won’t Play mp3.
I have been using Amarok to play mp3 files in Gutsy for ages. However, after a recent update Amarok suddenly started to say that it couldn’t play mp3 files and would I like to install mp3 support. Now in order to play mp3 files Amarok requires libxine1-ffmpeg, which was already installed. No amount of uninstalling amarok and libxine1-ffmpeg would persuade amarok or xine to play mp3 files.
Eventually I found a solution. Delete the .xine directory in your home directory and force a reinstall of ffmpeg. The following couple of lines show to to move .xine to .xine.old (so you can recover it if required) and re-install libxine1-ffmpeg.
mv ~/.xine ~/.xine.backup sudo apt-get remove libxine1-ffmpeg sudo apt-get install libxine1-ffmpeg
