Always Learning wrote: > On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 20:25 +0200, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: >> Most but not all. Windows users have only mp3 music, especially if they >> have illegal copies like >90% of people in South East Europe. For those >> you need non-free codecs. > > If MP3 music 'works' (meaning it successfully plays on Centos/Gnome) why > would additional codecs be required ? Does it? It was not my experience on either CentOS or Fedora. MP3 codecs are proprietary, and are not distributed by Red Hat distro's (RHEL and Fedora) > > I'm not very knowledgeable about codecs, which I assume are the audio > equivalent of printer drivers. I understand "yum install gstreamer*" > adds the legal and the 'bad' codecs which makes unplayable music > playable in Centos/Gnome. > As far as I know there is no codec in base repo that can play MP3 files. Not with Gstreamer nor with Xine. Ljubomir