xmms only playing mp3 as root
Michael Schwendt
mschwendt at gmail.com
Fri Dec 31 19:36:21 UTC 2010
On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 20:39:56 +0200, Johan wrote:
> Kindly suggest one that plays mp3 please. Also the plug-ins required please.
>
> Have a lot of applications on ---Applications >> sound video
> None play mp3 except xmms and do it easy.
Ah, come on, that simply isn't true. :) Several others just need an
additional MP3 plugin package just as with XMMS. While for XMMS, the
package is called "xmms-mp3", it has different names for the other
players. For example:
$ yum search xmms2
Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, langpacks, refresh-packagekit
Adding en_US to language list
================================ Matched: xmms2 ================================
gkrellxmms2.i686 : Gkrellm2 plugin client for XMMS2
nyxmms2.i686 : Commandline client for XMMS2
xmms2-avcodec.i686 : XMMS2 Plugin for avcodec supported formats
xmms2-devel.i686 : Development libraries and headers for XMMS2
xmms2-docs.i686 : Development documentation for XMMS2
xmms2-faad.i686 : XMMS2 Plugin for AAC and MP4 audio formats
xmms2-freeworld.i686 : Plugins for XMMS2 that cannot be included in Fedora
xmms2-mad.i686 : XMMS2 Plugin for MPEG Audio files
xmms2-mms.i686 : XMMS2 Plugin for MMS audio streams
xmms2-mp4.i686 : XMMS2 Plugin for MP4 audio
xmms2-perl.i686 : Perl support for XMMS2
xmms2-python.i686 : Python support for XMMS2
xmms2-ruby.i686 : Ruby support for XMMS2
gxmms2.i686 : A graphical audio player
xmms2.i686 : A modular audio framework and plugin architecture
esperanza.i686 : A graphical audio player
lxmusic.i686 : Lightweight XMMS2 client with simple user interface
gnome-applet-music.i686 : A GNOME panel applet to control various music players
Here, for "xmms2-*" the MP3 plugin package is "xmms2-mad", which is based
on the MAD audio decoding library for MP3. To add more 3rd party plugins
(from rpmfusion.org) in one go, one would simply install "xmms2-freeworld".
Additionally, it would be necessary to install a graphical user interface
like "lxmusic" (or "gxmms2") because XMMS2 is just an audio framework.
For Audacious 2 (which I use personally and it still offers a skinned
interface like XMMS, too), the packages are:
audacious
audacious-freeworld
(or just audacious-freeworld-mp3 for MP3 support)
also see: yum list audacious\*
For Qmmp, I see:
qmmp
qmmp-freeworld
Lots of audio players use the GStreamer framework. You can find the additional
3rd party plugins for GStreamer with e.g. "yum list gstreamer\*". They may
have strange names, but add support for MP3 and other formats.
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