*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 268617 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/268617
** Description changed:
Binary package hint: amarok
One of the quirks about Amarok that I've never seemed to be able to
avoid without having to manually install some sort of secondary decoder
package (after conducting a research project to figure out what's
actually missing) is the fact that if you install Ubuntu fresh, even if
you add the restricted-extra package, Amarok fails to play the included
default radio stations it includes in it's "Cool/Shoutcast Playlists"
because it says "There is no available decoder".
I approached the Amarok Forums with this problem, and they feel the blame is
on Ubuntu and the way it distributes Amarok via Synaptic or Add/Remove, as it
fails to bundle in the necessary decoders to play these stations. You can read
their reply to my post here:
http://amarok.kde.org/forum/index.php/topic,16433.msg25924.html#msg25924
Would it be so difficult to have the metapackage or whatever include the
one or two more little decoder packages that Amarok wants so these radio
stations will work "out of the box." New users shouldn't be required to
fix this themselves.
+
+ EDIT: After doing a little research, it appears that those who have
+ installed the Kubuntu-restricted-extras packages do not encounter this
+ error because it includes the libxine1-ffmpeg package within it, while
+ the GNOME oriented ubuntu-restricted-extras package does not.
+ libxine1-ffmpeg is the package needed to be installed in order to get
+ Amarok's bundled radio streams to play correctly without an error about
+ "no available decoder". Perhaps while installing Amarok, either via
+ Add/Remove or via Synaptic, libxine1-ffmpeg could be recommended as an
+ additional package people can opt to install along side Amarok so they
+ don't have a disappointing experience with the program upon first
+ running it.
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Amarok not packaged with necessary decoders to play bundled radio stations
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/323647
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