Hi I can confirm that it is the Xine Engine that is broken in this case. Building Debs via Alien of daily (unofficial) Suse RPMs of both libxine1-1.1.4-061204 and the respective w32codec-0.52-1.i386 package resolves the problem.
It is however still not an ideal scenario as these are clearly non native packages and could result in conflicts at some near point in the future. -- MP3 Support is Broken In Feisty https://launchpad.net/bugs/77059 -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs