Mp3 sound notification does not work

[HD]

James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> 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
>

Thanks for the suggestion. I will give the matter some thought.

-- 
HD

Tipping my hat to Fedora.

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