Crossing Over

Okay, so getting Amarok to work in Ubuntu via the advise of others has proved to be nothing but a royal pain in the arse, so i got back to basics.  One of the original purposes of me doing this whole Ubuntu thing was that I wanted to make sure that I was doing things as lazily and simply as possible.

Clicking on the “Install MP3 Support” dialog box that pops up generally resulted in nothing, so I decided to go back to the easiest way to install things in Ubuntu.

Add/Remove programs, search for Amarok:

This brought up an option called “Xine extra plugins.”

This is your nukular bomb folks.  This is the mp3 support I’ve been hunting for over the last couple of weeks.  No command line, no funky tricks, just back to keeping it simple, stupid.

Click on the check box, click on Apply and wait patiently for about 20 seconds while your Amarok MP3 support gets installed.

Then open Amarok and enjoy your best 90’s revival of a washed up 80’s band you can think of:

Didn’t I say a couple of days ago that I was going to keep this easy?  Why the hell didn’t I listen to myself before?

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