Hi Ljubomir, > > 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 have been using C 5 for 13 months. Thus I am certainly not an expert on it or on Linux generally. I have never ever had any problem whatsoever playing MP3 files on Centos 5.x I use Audacity as my preferred audio programme, generally importing .wav files and exporting them as .mp3 files. The mp3 files simply play and I have never had a problem. Perhaps I obtained the correct codecs without being aware they were fundamental to playing MP3 on 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. My repos are:- CentOS-Base.repo CentOS-Debuginfo.repo CentOS-Media.repo CentOS-Vault.repo elrepo.repo epel.repo epel-testing.repo kbsingh-CentOS-Misc.repo rpmforge.repo which specific codec do you need to play mp3 files in Centos ? -- With best regards, Paul. England, EU. 1 June 2010 Exclusively Centos & Gnome. Liberated from M$ Windoze.