Rhythmbox and mp3 files

[oldman]

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.
>
> Thanks for the help!
> Jerry
>
>
>   
    Jerry:

    I don't see the most important package listed, 
"gstreamer-plugins-mp3.i386" it is in the livna repo and also the 
freshrpms repo.

Scott