how to play songs in MP3 format

adu143 · 09-22-2003, 08:40 AM

Hi,
Recently I started working on Linux and want to learn more about it and want start with playing songs....and other things as usual. In my system i newly loaded Red hat Linux 9 and i m not able to Ply songs in MP3 format(In Xmms). pls give me some solution

Thanks

ziggamon · 09-22-2003, 08:55 AM

RedHat disabled mp3 support in XMMS for legal reasons....
you can download a patch that fixes this.
Klick the link below, and just download and install it with
rpm -Uvh xmms-mp3-something.rpm

http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat....i386.rpm.html

fsbooks · 09-22-2003, 08:59 AM

You can also install mpg321 which is a command line player. Or install the "original" mpg123 which may or may not be on their distribution disks.

I suggest checking out ogg's. See http://xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/ . I know they provide the various ogg tools. The format sounds better, is not proprietary, and produces smaller files.

liaohaohui · 09-22-2003, 11:18 PM

My suggestion is to download libmad from debian, compile and install it. To transform from mp3 to ogg, download mp32ogg from debian.

dolphans1 · 10-10-2003, 08:37 AM

* I have mandrake 9.2 and this is what I did.

1)- I double clicked on the CD Rom icon on the desktop.

2)- RT Click on the music file you want to listen to.

3)- scroll down to "actions"

4)- then go to "create audio CD"

5)- open "K3b- The CD Kreator"

6)- then drag music file or files(s) to player on the far right

7)- Click on the right PLAY arrow.

This may be a crude way, but one that works.

d-1