[CentOS] playing mp3's

[Jim Perrin]

On 1/16/06, Damien Hull <dhull at digitaloverload.net> wrote:
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> My main system is Fedora. To get mp3's working I added freshrpms to my
> yum.conf file. This allowed me to install xmms-mp3.
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> Should I add freshrpms to CentOS?
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Add rpmforge. Some of the same people as fedora, but packages for
centos/rhel instead of fedora.

http://dag.wieers.com/packages/rpmforge-release/

> I searched google and didn't find much on this topic. If there is
> another way to get mp3's and other multimedia working I would like to know.

In addition to xmms-mp3, there are rpms for mplayer and many others.



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Jim Perrin
System Architect - UIT
Ft Gordon & US Army Signal Center