[F8] Installing MP3 for Amarok? How?

Craig White craig at tobyhouse.com
Thu Jan 10 16:42:47 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 08:39 -0800, Dan Thurman wrote:
> On Thursday 10 January 2008 08:23:33 am Peter Reed wrote:
> > On Thursday 10 January 2008 09:10:26 am Dan Thurman wrote:
> > > I have googled for MP3 support for Amarok but I have been unsuccessful. 
> > > I tried both helix and xine engines and every time I try to drop in a MP3
> > > file, Amarok reports that MP3 files are not supported.
> > >
> > > Can someone tell me what I need to do to get MP3 support working?
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> >
> > If you look at the Unofficial Fedora FAQ it will tell you how to enable the
> > repositories that you need that will enable you to install the software
> > required to get mp3's working in Fedora and Amarok.
> > The Unofficial Fedora FAQ:  http://www.fedorafaq.org/
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> 
> Well, I was able to install xine-mp3, and I this works in xine. But Amarok
> says it does not support it. It won't even play it even if it is in my 
> playlist.
> 
> Following the Unoffical Fedora FAQ I tried:
> 
> + yum install kdemultimedia-extras-nonfree << does not exist
> + yum install audacious-plugins-nonfree-mp3 << does not exist
> + yum install gstreamer-plugins-ugly << does not exist
> 
> There is nothing in the Unoffical Fedora FAQ link in regards to Amarok.
> 
> Thanks for the tip!
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the 'unofficial Fedora FAQ' uses some repos that you might not have set
up...I think that they have instructions for using their suggested repo
setup.

What is output of?

yum repolist

Craig




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