[Feedback] MP3, Amarok 2

[Seb Ruiz]

2008/7/17 Morten Lamp <morten.lamp at googlemail.com>:
> Hi Mathers,
> try "sudo apt-get install libxine1-plugins"
> This package adds mp3 support to XINE.
> Hope this works for you.
> Morten

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> 2008/7/16 Gregory Meyer <greg at gkmeyer.com>:
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 8:42 AM,  <TheMathers at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> > Mathers sent a message using the contact form at
>> > http://amarok.kde.org/en/contact.
>> >
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I installed Amarok 2 with the command:
>> > apt-get install amarok-kde4
>> >
>> > You see, I'm using KDE4(.1).
>> > My question is how to play mp3-files.
>> > I've already installed lame, but Amarok still doesn't play mp3-files :(
>> >
>> Assuming you are using ubuntu, I don't think it is an amarok problem,
>> but that ubuntu cripples mp3 playback to comply with the software
>> patents related to the mp3 codec.  lame is an encoder, not a decoder,
>> so it doesn't help.  You have to figure out how to enable it in the
>> distro, but I think the mp3 decoder is called mad.




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