Music Player question

Michael Schwendt fedora at wir-sind-cool.org
Mon May 31 12:26:36 UTC 2004


On Sun, 30 May 2004 22:27:53 -0400, Shaun T. Erickson wrote:

> It claims to be able to play streaming Internet radio stations. There's 
> more than one kind, right? Windows Media Player, RealPlayer, and so on, 
> yes? How do I 1) know what type it will play, and 2) find stations of 
> that type, to play?
> 
> Hmm. I discovered the radio play list in /usr/share/rythmbox, but when I 
> try to play anything in that list, I get this:
> 
> There is no element present to handle the stream's mime type audio/mpeg.

For certain media formats, such as mp3 (which belongs to the audio/mpeg
MIME type), you need add-ons which are not included in Fedora Core
due to patenting or licencing issues. You could get an mp3 plugin here:

http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/2/i386/RPMS.testing/gstreamer-plugins-mp3-0.8.1-0.lvn.1.2.i386.rpm

http://rpm.livna.org





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