[Solved] Amarok won't play music

First off I think I've finally found the Linux distro I'm happy with (and I've tried many of them). EXCELLENT distro.
But back to the reason for this post; I recently installed Arch with KDE4 (vanilla) and everything works no problem except for Amarok. Amarok opens and runs completely fine except for the fact that it won't actually play any music. The sound on any other program works perfectly so its not a general sound issue. The same mp3 files that won't play in Amarok WILL play in VLC so I'm guessing it's not a codec problem either.
I've searched for an answer around the internet and this forum and nothing helped. I tried messing around with the devices and backends (xine and Gstreamer) and nothing. Also of note is when i click "Test" in the Amarok sound configuration to test the hardware it works.
So I click on a song in Amarok to play and it just won't. Any ideas?
Last edited by herrvideman (2010-01-11 22:11:10)

herrvideman wrote:
Upgraded to Amarok testing version (2.2.1.90) and switched the backend to xine (I guess Gstreamer was buggy with Amarok) and it now works.
Thanks for the help!
Yes it will. You only need to add testing and community-testing and when you'll update it will update amarok to. Or if you don't want to use testing daily just do
pacman -Sy amarok
And disable testing after it.
It should work.
PS.: oh didn't see your post there
Last edited by Primoz (2010-01-11 22:16:46)

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