Ranter or evangelist?

gilpel at altern.org gilpel at altern.org
Fri Jul 17 02:40:56 UTC 2009


> On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 22:26 -0400, gilpel at altern.org wrote:
>> Why is it that, when I insert an audio disk, I see it as an audio disk
>> on
>> my desktop, but when I click it, GNOME shows the .wav files that are
>> present. No application is suggested, even under "Open", to play the
>> damned music.
>
> Which part of "Fedora does not support proprietary formats" do you not
> understand? If you want .wav support, you need to add codecs from a
> non-Fedora repo. I apologize if you did this and it didn't work, but you
> don't say so.

I can read the CD, so the codecs are installed.

What I explained is that the way to get the CD playing is far, very far,
from as obvious as if you were using a Mac or Windows.

User friendlyness is N-I-L.




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