Amarok doesn't have it's own player engine. Instead, it can use a variety, some of which probably already exist on your system. By default, I believe it uses the xine engine, which can play damn near anything, including basic audio like WAV files. Check for your xine-plugins packages (rpm search on 
<a href="http://pbone.net">pbone.net</a> showed me these)<br><br><span>xine-plugins-1.1.1-7.1.20060plf.x86_64.rpm <br>xine-plugins-1.1.1-7.1.20060plf.i586.rpm <br>xine-plugins-1.1.0-9.7.20060mdk.i586.rpm <br>xine-plugins-1.1.0-9.7.20060mdk.i586.rpm
 <br>xine-plugins-1.1.0-8mdk.i586.rpm<br><br>Also, if you can view the details of the file (see how it is actually encoded) that might help figure out what&#39;s causing the problem.<br><br>If updating your version of the xine engine doesn&#39;t seem to do anything, try switching to the Helix (realplayer, basically) engine in Amarok (or if you&#39;re already using it, change to xine). No need to go reencoding everything you get when your engine should just be able to handle it as-is. :-)
<br></span><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/1/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Josef Lowder</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:joe@actionline.com">joe@actionline.com</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
.<br>After 20 years of using computers, and never before having<br>done anything with music or audio files, I am just beginning<br>to explore ... so I have a plethora of questions.<br><br>So far, I have copied some files from a little mp3 player that
<br>our daughter gave us to my 2006 Mandriva box and was glad to<br>find &#39;amarok&#39; (which I&#39;ve seen several pluggers mention favorably)<br>on my system and delighted to discover that it plays the 20-some<br>files I downloaded just fine.&nbsp;&nbsp;Good start.
<br><br>Some time ago, I had also downloaded but never before tried to<br>play one .wma file and one .wav file.&nbsp;&nbsp;Now I find that amarok<br>plays the .wma file fine, but not the .wav file.<br><br>So, what is the difference between these various formats
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