SOME sound files wont play on my RH9. Bad header??

matazar42 · 12-20-2004, 12:31 PM

I tansfered all my mp3 files from Windows to Linux but they wont play on any of the sound players. I downloaded an assortment of sound files from the web and only about half of them play. I looked under "properties" and found that all the ones that dont play are labled as having reasonable file size, but zero length. I'm wondering if there's a way to get a sound player to look at the file and find out the length itself. Or maby relable the file.
Thanks,
-Matthew

UsualTuxpect · 12-20-2004, 01:19 PM

Are you sure they are all mp3 encoded files???, and not .ogg or any other audio format.

If they are .ogg/other file format's, you need to install the necessary plugins [codecs] for Xmms/.. on Linux.

matazar42 · 12-20-2004, 03:03 PM

They are .mp3.
I got them from an assortment of websites.
I've never heard of .ogg.
but it says the file type is MPEG layer 3 audio.
and it ends in .mp3 even when it was on my windows.
I think i need to get the audio player to disregard the heading but there's nothing like that in any of the options.

UsualTuxpect · 12-20-2004, 04:33 PM

DRM protection ???, maybe..

matazar42 · 12-20-2004, 06:13 PM

no, there's not DRM on all of them. The only thing i found they have in common is that Linux thinks that they are zero seconds long. which would explain why they're not playing. I just dont know what to do about it.

reynacho_au · 12-20-2004, 08:23 PM

RH9 doesn't come with mp3 support. You have to download an rpm and install it for it to work. Go to this site:
http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrp...p.fr1.i386.rpm

Make sure to install it under root.

matazar42 · 12-21-2004, 08:54 PM

Thanks a lot guys. It was some kind of driver problem. I got it working