mp3 rhythmbox

[Karagkiaouris diamantis]

Hello,

I am not able to play mp3 file on Rhythmbox with Fedora 23 XFCE. I have 
installed all drpm from RPM Fusion but for some reason i cannot play mp3 
with rhythmbox. The do not show up also in Musik library under 
Rhythmbox, even if i enable the automatically import from settings.

Thank you!
Diamantis

[Tim]

Allegedly, on or about 20 January 2016, Karagkiaouris diamantis sent:
> I am not able to play mp3 file on Rhythmbox with Fedora 23 XFCE. I
> have installed all drpm from RPM Fusion but for some reason i cannot
> play mp3

Exactly what do you mean by "all drpm"?  If you mean you've installed
all the rpms that are on RPM fusion, that's a bad idea.

Usually, installing support for one the encumbered formats (e.g. mp3)
means installing some of the ffmpeg or gstreamer and gstreamer1
packages, usually with their -good and -bad sub-packages, and sometimes
the -ugly sub-packages.  There's a lot more sub-packages that you will
not need, and it's up to you whether you want to open two cans of worms
at the same time.

The two and a half of them (ffmpeg-* &/or gstreamer-*/gstreamer1-*)
usually cover most audio programs.  But some programs use the lame
codec.  And some programs have a -nonfree recompiled binary program
package, that you either install instead, or use alongside.

I would have thought that doing an internet search for "fedora mp3 faq"
would produce something useful.  Or even a "yum search mp3" (or whatever
the dnf equivalent command is).

https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/9111/sticky-what-plugins-do-i-need...
https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/7548/how-to-play-mp3-files-with-rh...

General advice seemed to be that you should try playing a MP3 file with
the Rhythmbox program, and when it fails to manage it, it will ask you
permission to install additional codecs to support it.  But there's more
information on those links about doing it yourself.

[Derrik Walker v2.0]

On 01/20/2016 04:01 PM, Karagkiaouris diamantis wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am not able to play mp3 file on Rhythmbox with Fedora 23 XFCE. I 
> have installed all drpm from RPM Fusion but for some reason i cannot 
> play mp3 with rhythmbox. The do not show up also in Musik library 
> under Rhythmbox, even if i enable the automatically import from settings.
>
> Thank you!
> Diamantis

To get Rythmbox to work, I installed ( from RPM-Fusion mostly ) 
gstreamer, all the codec packages, ffmpeg, ffmpeg-libs ...

All needed, but there is a secret one that is easy to miss and not 
marked as a pre-req...

gstreamer-ffmpeg

After that, kill it and restart it, and it should play mp3 files just fine.

With those, you'll likely get 100's of other packages that are required.

[thomas cameron]

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On 01/20/2016 03:01 PM, Karagkiaouris diamantis wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am not able to play mp3 file on Rhythmbox with Fedora 23 XFCE. I
> have installed all drpm from RPM Fusion but for some reason i
> cannot play mp3 with rhythmbox. The do not show up also in Musik
> library under Rhythmbox, even if i enable the automatically import
> from settings.
>
> Thank you! Diamantis

I built this list of stuff to install from several other sites. It
seems to make pretty much everything work for me on Fedora. I
initially did this for F19, but it's worked for every distro from 19
through 23:

http://www.camerontech.com/f19setup.html

Thomas
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[Kevin Cummings]

On 01/27/2016 11:10 AM, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> I built this list of stuff to install from several other sites. It
> seems to make pretty much everything work for me on Fedora. I
> initially did this for F19, but it's worked for every distro from 19
> through 23:
>
> http://www.camerontech.com/f19setup.html

1)  shouldn't yum-fastestmirror be yum-plugin-fastestmirror?

2)  I didn't know that Google had released a 64 bit chrome.  Is there a
64 bit repo for it so it will update automatically?

Thanks for sharing such a comprehensive list!
> Thomas