Just wondering where or how to install all the audio codecs? I installed a music player called clementine and can't play anything because it keeps spamming me with GStreamer plugin not found. I already installed gmstreamer but still the same problem, for windows I always used klite codecs, is there an equivalent installer of that for linux? I already have mplayer installed and also the plugins but that did nothing for the clementine audio to play mp3's.

Secondly, I am using a sound card creative labs fata1ity. Should I attempt installing these outdated (2007) drivers or is there something else? I cannot find sound settings anywhere but there is sound. I'd like to switch between settings when using headphones or my speaker system.

Your profile tab says you're using Slackware. My best guess is that while you have installed gstreamer you might need to symbolically link gstreamer to the media player.

Another possibility- try different media file types (ie: mp3, ogg, flac, etc) to determine if the problem is not simply a byproduct of a specific format.

I'm not sure how to do the first part and unfortunately the second option does not work with me as I have a huge collection of music that just won't play in clementine. I've tried other players and they all have some kind of problem. But alternatively I am trying to install rhythmbox now and get this error:

Can you tell me how to use the rhythmbox_cflags and rhythmbox_libs?

Also there is no sound settings? I am using xfce interface and still haven't found it.

For XFCE you have to install the sound settings application separately, it is called xfce4-mixer

While others will surely disagree with me, Slackware means business and I've only ever fixed the kinds of errors you're having with great effort.

I'm guessing you are relatively new to the Linux game, and I might suggest you start with a more user friendly distro.

I use Linux Mint (XFCE)- for me installing an audio program is as simple as

That's it- it handles the dependencies for you. Alternatively, you can use the package manager and browse through almost like a giant free bazaar. If you really want to do Slack- then I applaud you, but for me I'm use Linux to get my job done--- I like it to just work- which is why I use Mint (though I have been mulling using pure Debian).

Hope this helps, please let me know if I can help with anything else.

This is the thread I started when I started with slackware
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...3-37-a-922733/

Perhaps you should post your question in the slackware sub forum in LQ there is a great group of people there

AlienBob has lots of pre built packages for slackware and I am sure he will share them with you.

Good luck

If you would go over to alien's and get VLC it will play anything you can through at it!
Get this pkg and "installpkg vlc-2.0.7-x86_64-1alien.txz


http://slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/vlc/pkg64/14.0/

Neither Amarok nor Audacious would play your mp3s out of the box? That's unusual.

Comes with slackware. It should even show up in the bottom XFCE panel with no effort.

You probably need gst-plugins-ugly (and maybe gst-plugins-bad [and maybe maybe, though probably not, gst-plugins-ffmpeg]). Slackware can't distribute gst-plugins-ugly due to license issues but you can build it yourself (slackbuilds.org has SlackBuilds for all three packages). I am not sure if you would have to rebuild Clementine/Amarok/whatever after installing those but I would guess not since it should go through gstreamer. Note also that you may have to manually change the sound engine to gstreamer (it may be xine or phonon or something else by default...).

If you're using Xfce, give my MLED (Microlinux Enterprise Desktop = Slackware + Xfce on steroids) a spin. It contains - among other things - all the byzantine audio and video codecs and plugins under the sun. Now I can throw pretty much everything at Audacious and SMPlayer.

https://github.com/kikinovak/desktop

Enjoy.

That's very well-written.

Thanks for the flowers! It also works well.

http://www.microlinux.fr/images/workstation.png