On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 08:53 -0800, Gerhard Magnus wrote: > I've been trying to get the music player Rhythmbox to play mp3 files. > I've followed the instructions in the FC4 installation notes > (http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_4_installation_notes.html) that > include the following: > > "Rhythmbox (Music Player) is the default music player in FC4 but does > not come with MP3 support out of the box because of patent issues. To > enable MP3 support for Music Player configure apt and synaptic as > described above. In Synaptic click on the "reload" icon to update your > package list. Find the gstreamer stuff and click in the checkboxes (then > click "Mark for installation") for each of "gstreamer", > "gstreamer-plugins", "gstreamer-plugins-extra-audio", and > "gstreamer-tools". Click the "Apply" button in Synaptic. You should now > have MP3 support in Rhythmbox (Music Player)." > > After doing this, Synaptic shows gstreamer (0.8.10-1) gstreamer-plugins > (0.9.8-9), gstreamer-plugins-extra-audio (0.8.8-2.2.fc4), and > gstreamer-tools (0.8.10-1) all marked as installed. > > When I load a CD of mp3 files and have Rhythmbox > import /media/cdrecorder, the mp3 files all show in as dimmed -- > suggesting that the player isn't recognizing them as anything it can > play. > > Any suggestions as to how to proceed? Do I need to install more > "gstreamer stuff"? Googling various combinations of "gstreamer", > "rhythmbox", and "mp3" has left me totally confused as to why this mp3 > work-around... isn't working. ---- works for me - I can't get it to play aac/m4a files but that's another matter... # rpm -qa|grep gstreamer gstreamer-plugins-extra-video-0.8.11-0.lvn.2.4 gstreamer-tools-0.8.10-1 gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.8.7-1.2.fc4.rf gstreamer-plugins-extra-audio-0.8.11-0.lvn.2.4 gstreamer-0.8.10-1 gstreamer-plugins-0.8.8-9 does that look similar to what you have going on? (perhaps you might not have gstreamer-ffmpeg but that has nothing to do with playing mp3 files. Craig
