Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:

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?

I assume you're using SUSE 9.3? Have you installed the Multimedia packages from YOU? It should "just work" in 9.3 after you've installed the 4 multimedia packs. In SUSE 10, you can use the Realplayer Helix backend in Amarok, and MP3s play fine... Or... covert to OGG and problem solved.. no more being caught up all that crap with software patents coming out of America these days. :-) C.