I have lost the ability to save music in MP3 format

Paul Otheim coriolis220 at gmail.com
Fri Nov 5 01:18:05 UTC 2010


On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 11:46 PM, stan <gryt2 at q.com> wrote:

> > 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.
>
> I had not considered permissions but I will have to look into it. It seems
the only other possibility at this time.

> Does sox or audacity work for converting to mp3?
>
> I have not tried them but I had tried amarok and another music player to
see if it was app specific. It's not.


> 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.
>
> I do have them. The option to save as mp3 just does not appear in any of
the sound apps I have.  I have tried all the suggestions so far to no
avail.

thanks .
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