Mp3 sound notification does not work

[James Richard Tyrer]

HD wrote:
> I am using KDE 3.2 with Fedora Core 1 and have downloaded some MP3 
> notification sounds from KDE-Look.org. I have installed them according 
> to the instructions on that site but they will not play. The default wav 
> notification sounds work just fine.... but I wanted something a little 
> different. I can play the MP3 sounds using xmms (after installing it 
> from xmms.org since the one that comes with FC1 will not play MP3), 
> Kplayer and Mplayer but not with Noatun or Kaboodle. Is there something 
> I can do to fix this?

Sorry but, there is no MP3 support on RedHat/Fedora.

However, you can install LAME.  You can probably find an RPM to download 
from somewhere outside of the USA.

	http://www.idiap.ch/~sanders/not_lame/notlame-3.92-1.i686.rpm

Note that this is not 100% legal.  Personally, I would be glad to purchase 
an individual license for $2.50 but they don't seem to want to accept the 
money:

	http://www.mp3licensing.com/royalty/software.html

LAME will decode an MP3 file to a WAV file.  You can then OGG encode if you 
want.

--
JRT
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