FC1 rhythmbox error : "Failed to create mad element; Check your installation."

marco75 · 03-02-2005, 07:39 PM

I downloaded the updated version about 10 minutes ago.
After adding music to my Media Library, I click play.

I get this error:

Failed to create mad element; Check your installation.

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Also, what radio stations do you listen to with rhythmbox, and what are their URLs? I'd like to try that feature.

Thanks for reading!

Marco

salparadise · 03-03-2005, 02:11 PM

You probably need the mp3 plugin in order to play mp3's. Most distro's ship without mp3 support due to licencing issues.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=159469

Hope this helps.

marco75 · 03-03-2005, 02:17 PM

I knew about Fedora and attack lawyers etc., so I installed DVD and MP3 support from livna.org
XMMS plays MP3 just fine... does rhythmbox use the same codec as XMMS, or do I need a seperate one for it?

salparadise · 03-03-2005, 02:24 PM

Er,
Don't know to be honest. I can't stand Rhythmbox.
Ugly piece of work.
I like beep-media-player (more or less indistinguishable from xmms).

marco75 · 03-03-2005, 03:28 PM

rhythmbox is working now, it did need its own packages, such as

yum install gstreamer gstreamer-plugins-mp3 rhythmbox

So this is what iTunes is like. Good way of organizing music.