On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 19:43:40 -0500, Joe Klemmer wrote: > Just for kicks I wanted to try out Rhythmbox. Unfortunately whenever I > try to play anything I get a pop-up error message saying, "Failed to > create mad element; check your installation". OC, it doesn't tell me > what needs to be checked in my installation. Anyone have any ideas? The error message is lame. "mad" refers to the "MAD" mp3 codec software, which rhythmbox takes from the gstreamer-plugins-mp3 package. That package could be made a dependency, but then would force people to install mp3. Not a good idea. mp3 should stay optional. --
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