Amarok does not play anything
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If Amarok does not play anything, you hear no sound or it skips through songs,
you are probably using Phonon GStreamer backend. To fix this either:

1) Install phonon-backend-xine package and remove
   phonon-backend-gstreamer package (with your favourite apt package manager).

2) Install phonon-backend-xine package and make sure Xine backend is preferred
   to GStreamer. To do the latter, go to `[ Menu ] Settings -> Configure Amarok
   -> Playback -> [ Sound system configuration ] Configure -> [ Tab ] Backend`
   and move Xine to the top of the list.

Finally, restart Amarok. See [1] for more information.

1. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=538767


Amarok does not play MP3 files
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Make sure that the package libxine1-ffmpeg is installed.

  # dpkg -l libxine1-ffmpeg | grep ii || aptitude install libxine1-ffmpeg


0:00 track lengths, last.fm scrobbling not woking
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Read /usr/share/doc/amarok/README.Debian.
