I have lost the ability to save music in MP3 format

Paul Otheim coriolis220 at gmail.com
Fri Nov 5 00:44:31 UTC 2010


On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 1:35 AM, Manuel Escudero <Jmlevick at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> 2010/11/3 stan <gryt2 at q.com>
>
> > On Wed, 3 Nov 2010 22:25:15 -0400
>> > Paul Otheim <coriolis220 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I have been out of the loop with the latest news on Fedora and open
>> > source for sometime. Maybe a month ago, I lost the ability to create
>> > MP3's. I though initially it was just affecting Rhythmbox but Sound
>> > Juicer also can no longer save music in an MP3 format. I did some
>> > light searching via google but have yet to find a solution. I scanned
>> > the archives for the last few months but if anyone else is having
>> > this issue then I have missed it. It was working one day then it
>> > wasn't , I have the gstreamer plugins ugly and bad, ffmpeg. Anyway it
>> > was working and I have not removed any packages, so I am not sure
>> > what happened.
>>
>> You're right, this is strange.  It sounds like it could be a
>> permissions problem of some sort.  The packages are there, they just
>> can't be accessed because something has changed the access rights.
>>
>> Does sox or audacity work for converting to mp3?
>>
>> Do you have lame and libmad installed?  These are other libraries
>> that allow encoding and playing mp3s.  I can't think about how they
>> could be the cause of your problem, just suggest them as a wild
>> possibility.
>>
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>
> Install all the codecs again acording to your desktop enviroment:
>
> KDE:
>
> 1.- yum -y install xine-lib-extras xine-lib-extras-freeworld
> k3b-extras-freeworld
>
> GNOME:
>
> 1.- yum -y install gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-extras
> gstreamer-plugins-bad-nonfree gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-ffmpeg
>
>
No go.

thanks
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