amarok won't jump to position

Jason Paul Joines jason at joines.org
Wed Aug 3 17:32:21 UTC 2011


Bjoern Voigt wrote:
> Jason Paul Joines wrote:
>> Right now there are a large number of local mp3 files in my playlist.
>> Most of them won't allow me to fast forward, rewind, jump, etc., but
>> one or two do. The ones that do have a large circle moving along the
>> progress bar during playback. For those that don't, the large circle
>> is missing. It shows up when you first hit play but instantly
>> disappears. Also, a file that wouldn't allow jumps once may allow it
>> the next time through.
>>
>> Any ideas?
> I had this problem too. I solved it by switching the KDE/Amarok Phonon
> backend priority to Xine instead of Gstreamer.
>
> Greetings,
> Björn
>


     Thanks for the suggestion.  I just installed phonon-backend-xine 
and made the change you suggested and it seems to be working.


Jason
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