mp3 in amarok

I see a lot of discussion on this by googling the topic, but not able to get it mp3's playing in amarok. I found one thread (not this list) that suggested loading the Packman sources and doing an update of all packages. I did this once before already. But anyway, I am having problem with Packman sources I guess since last night I keep getting an error when trying updates from there 'ftp://packman.iu-bremen.de/suse/9.3'. Are they loaded down or having problems? Or does someone know what I can do to get mp3's playing in amarok? -- Robert