Adding MP3 Support to AmaroK

[Jonathan Underwood]

Steven Pasternak wrote:
> Hi! I have been using rhythmbox to listen to my music files for a while. 
> I recently decided to try amarok to see what all the hype was about. I 
> added mp3 support to gstreamer by copying the .so file from my SuSE 9.3 
> insallation to the gstreamer plugins directory ( I don't know what the 
> developers say about this, but it worked ;-) ). AmaroK says that it is 
> using the gstreamer backend, but it won't play MP3's. I have mad 
> installed, and from experience with SuSE 9.3, I know that kdemultimedia 
> and libtunepimp have to have mp3 support built in. I don't want to have 
> to compile kdemultimedia 3.4.2 if I don't have to, because it is a pain. 
> Should I just recompile libtunepimp, or do I need to compile both? Thanks!
> -Steven
> 

Install gstreamer-plugins* from freshrpms and dries.