I finally got amaroK installed. When I clicked finish after the initial setup, I received the following error:

The claims it cannot play MP3 files.

You may want to choose a different engine from the Configure
Dialog, or examine the installation of the multimedia-framework
that the current engine uses.

I went to the Configure Dialog and it says "no engine". What engine do I need, and how do I install it? Is it just an rpm that I need?

I tried playing regular CD's and they would not play as well.
I also have XMMS installed, and nothing plays out of that app either.
My DVD's play just great with mplayer... both sound and video play just fine.

As you may have noticed, amarok acts a frontend for various media players. You can choose between xine, arts and helix/realplayer. This means that apart from the amarok package you will need an interface to the backend, called amarok-xine or amarok-arts or amarok-helix, respecively and a working (mp3 playing) backend (xine/arts/realplayer). I got good results with xine. For arts and helix it was a little more tricky to find working packages. If you are using xine, use the packman packages, for helix you need to point amarok to the realplayer installation (not helix, as it doesn't play mp3).

EDIT: This is an older thread with a similar problem. Have a look!
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=406323

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.... HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW... Thanks abisko00. (LOL)... I installed xine and amaroK-xine and then pointed amaroK to the xine engine.... and then this Beautiful Magnificent sound eminated from my "X" box... hahahahahaha ... (LOL)

Thanks again abisko00...