GStreamer based media player (rhythmbox) play mp3 (Ans: FAQ)

[vegan_linuxguy]

1) Download libid3tag and libmad from freshrpms.net or repo of choice.
2) Download the mad plugin for gstreamer from gstreamer.net or repo of choice.
3) Install all three with rpm -Uvh on the command line or using a GUI tool like synaptic
4) Run gst-register to update gstreamer.
5) Optionally run gst-inspect [name of plug-in] to make sure the plug-in was installed correctly.
6) Run rhythmbox and enjoy your mp3s.

The process is very similar for flac support in rhythmbox and lame/flac support in sound-juicer. However, the version of sound-juicer that shipped with Fedora Core 1 has a bug in its extraction loop that causes it to crash after extracting one song with any encoder but oggencode. So, you must update you version of sound-juicer to use lame easily. I'll post RPMs for this in a few days. Thanks.

[foolish]

This worked fine for me, rhythmbox can now play mp3s. But there are still weird parts. People on #fedora have reported this not to work for them and for a reason unknow to me rhythmbox doesn't load all my mp3s, and leaves about 800 of them.

If anyone has any suggestions on how to improve the mp3 support, or other ways of doing it than mentioned above, go ahead.

[foolish]

<BlakeRG> i have some goodies for fedora guys. http://www.ieeto.net/rpm/ - i have a recompiled rhythmbox rpm with added FLAC and MP3 support too

This package works like a charm with me. Thank you BlakeRG

[Avatraxiom]

The static FAQ now points to this forum post. Thanks, vegan_linuxguy!

-M

[crakroksteady]

awesome I finally got it to work, I'm vegan too, right on!

[ilbh]

it didnt work for me...