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hello I'm a newbie and would like to know how I can make my rhythmbox music player use the internet to listen to programs I've try to use it but it saids I need a decoder installed to handle this file. You might need to install the necessary plugins question 1 what decoder do I need and 2 what plugins do I need thank you
Last edited by slime case; 04-07-2007 at 10:16 AM.
Reason: have bad news
You'll need the gstreamer-plugins-ugly for Rhythmbox, to add mp3 capability. This is usually available in a third-party repository, since the distributions cannot include it (due to licensing restrictions).
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