mp3 player suggestions on Fedora Core 4

RevoLinux · 03-02-2006, 11:35 PM

Hello,

I am totally new to Linux and searching for a good mp3 player or a plugin to play mp3 files at best quality possible.I've already tried many things and plugins for a week but I couldn't get a good quality for mp3s.(I am running the Fedora Core 4 (Gnome) on my laptop.)

For example; on Xmms
I don't know how to explain this but the sound is really bad, it makes strange noises on the background when I am playing an mp3 file.Is there any way to fix this problem?

I just want to know which program u guys use for mp3s on FC4.

Thanks..

Alien_Hominid · 03-03-2006, 12:21 AM

You can try mplayer.

rickh · 03-03-2006, 12:59 AM

xmms is the best thing to use. Check preferences and make sure you're using the ALSA drivers. You did install ALSA, didn't you? It's also possible that you have a really messed up mp3 codec. You should have LAME.

Search the forum for mp3 problems. Every possible issue has been beaten to death a few thousand times already.

RevoLinux · 03-03-2006, 05:33 AM

rickh,

I have no idea about ALSA drivers & LAME

I made a research about them and got some information about what they really are.The installation of ALSA drivers is ok but I am having a trouble while I am installing lame-3.96.1 to my system.I have all the info. about how to install it but I coulnd't find how to resolve this error message.Here is what I do and the error message;

Quote:

./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-mp3rtp && make

when I write this on, it takes for a while and does a lot things.At the end I get this error messages;

Quote:

brhist.c:63:21: error: curses.h: No such file or directory
brhist.c:65:20: error: term.h: No such file or directory
brhist.c: In function ‘brhist_init’:
brhist.c:160: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘tgetent’
brhist.c:165: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘tgetnum’
brhist.c:173: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘tgetstr’
brhist.c:173: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
brhist.c:178: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
brhist.c:183: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
brhist.c:188: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
make[2]: *** [brhist.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/revolution/lame-3.96.1/frontend'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/revolution/lame-3.96.1'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Do you have any idea how I can get over this error?

Thanks..

ethics · 03-03-2006, 05:41 AM

search these forums for yum, its a package manager on FC and it's brilliant, handles downloading/installing etc.

personally i am using amarok, i love it, more features than i need but you can maintain a collection in it etc.

http://amarok.kde.org/

RevoLinux · 03-03-2006, 05:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rickh

xmms is the best thing to use. Check preferences and make sure you're using the ALSA drivers. You did install ALSA, didn't you? It's also possible that you have a really messed up mp3 codec. You should have LAME.

Search the forum for mp3 problems. Every possible issue has been beaten to death a few thousand times already.

I just wanted to add this; I guess I have a problem about my compiler (gcc)..because I got another error like this when I installed another software a couple days ago.

RevoLinux · 03-03-2006, 05:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethics

search these forums for yum, its a package manager on FC and it's brilliant, handles downloading/installing etc.

personally i am using amarok, i love it, more features than i need but you can maintain a collection in it etc.

I am using yum.It's really got all my installs done except this one.

Quote:

yum install lame

unfortunately, it says nothing to do.I'll try amarok, thanks for you advice.