rhythmbox won't play mp3 files

contra · 11-06-2003, 09:26 AM

i have a completly fresh fedora core 1 installation...what do i need to do in order to play mp3's in rhythmbox..i have them working in xmms but i can't, for the life of me, get them working in rhythmbox...i tell it to load all the files in a certain directory and they don't even come up in the library

ronss · 11-07-2003, 07:55 AM

installed xmms player for red hat 9, it works

contra · 11-07-2003, 04:31 PM

that was a very bad answer...in fact, it wasn't a answer at all..

i installed the lib files to get xmms working but RHYTHMBOX won't work... i know it needs to be complied using xine or a fixed gstreamer and i got as far as it almost compiling, but it shit out and i coulnd't figure it out.

laydros · 11-08-2003, 10:08 AM

ive never been able to get rhythmbox running under redhat (i haven't tried too much) but a friend told me he had to download the latest gstreamer stuff, and it worked.

im installing fedora now, and i might actually switch to it, and im gonna hack around with running rhythmbox with xine support. its better with xine anyway.

contra · 11-08-2003, 10:22 AM

awesome... i've been trying to get it runnin with xine support too..

feel free to IM me (contranj) maybe our 2 heads combined can figure it out

if i get it to work i'll be sure to post a faq or some kind of guide to get it working

laydros · 11-08-2003, 01:44 PM

well, i thought i had it

i downloaded all kinda of mad stuff (mad, libmad, libid3tag) and installed xine.

when i do ./configure --enable-xine it says that it compiles with mp3 support with xine backend. i think that means it will work. but when i do the make, it gets nasty errors. im going to continue fighting with it and see what i can do.

i put you on my buddy list, but didn't see you on

btw, are you contrasutra that i know???

the_thunderbird · 11-12-2003, 04:23 PM

Didn't take much effort to get rhythmbox working in Fedora with mp3 support, download xine thru apt from freshrpms.net (including xine-lib-devel) make sure you got all the other packages you need and run ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-xine

type make and it will work straight off

OmegaBlac · 11-19-2003, 11:38 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by contra
i have a completly fresh fedora core 1 installation...what do i need to do in order to play mp3's in rhythmbox..i have them working in xmms but i can't, for the life of me, get them working in rhythmbox...i tell it to load all the files in a certain directory and they don't even come up in the library

I'm having the same problem. RhythmBox will allow me load the mp3s into my playlist/library but won't allow me to play mp3s. I'll just use xmms to play mp3s in Fedora. For some reason Rhythm Box works in my Debian installation.

wiraone · 11-20-2003, 12:52 AM

May be this thread will help you to get it to work, haven't test it myself.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/114094

It works!

Just download the rhythmbox from freshrpm instead of using the one supplied with Fedora.

OmegaBlac · 11-20-2003, 10:37 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by wiraone
May be this thread will help you to get it to work, haven't test it myself.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/114094

It works! Just download the rhythmbox from freshrpm instead of using the one supplied with Fedora.

I'll will try. Thx for help.