banshee mp3

I am trying to get banshee to play back mp3. It encodes them perfectly. Syncs with ipod plays cds and oggs etc.

But I install gst-fluendo (from source) and I cannot play mp3s through banshee. Does it need libaries linked to enable???

banshee 0.10.9
engine gstreamer10
opensuse 10.1

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got it. configure with --prefix=/opt/gnome

What do you mean "configure with --prefix=/opt/gnome"? I have the same problem.

My gstreamer .so files are located in /opt/gnome/lib/gstreamer-0.10/

First check where your gstreamer is located. Just do cd /opt/gnome/lib/gstrea [TAB] to see if it's there.

(A handy app for finding files is slocate. Its called findutils-locate on suse. Just install then as root in terminal do updatedb. To create a database. Then: locate gstreamer or anything else you are looking for.)

If it is return to the direrctory where the gst-fluendo.tar.gz package is. Untar and change to the newly created directory.

Then when you normally compile you only do ./configure but if you do this the files will end up in /usr/local/lib/gstreamer... and banshee won't find them there. So do:

./configure --prefix=/opt/gnome/

make

make uninstall (if you have installed previously)

make install

Now the files will be installed in /opt/gnome/lib/gstreamer... and banshee should find them.

Hi,

right now I have installed banshee using "apt-get install banshee". It works like a charm.

this is my first computer and i have no idea what you all are talking about. i have the same problem with banshee not wanting to play mp3 but i cant understand your directions. i need something really simple. please help

You can install as many media players you want; vlc is a good choice.
Have you installed the restricted extras?

How did you installed banshee using

$ apt-get install banshee

in OpenSuSE? Looks like you did that in a Debian base distro
I think in OpenSuSE the command line should be more like

$ sudo zypper install banshee

or something

liaty, are you using kde desktop environment by any chance?