Always Learning wrote: > 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 ? > From your repos it could be gstreamer-plugins-ugly package from RPMForge. There are also *-freeworld packages from rpmfusion repo I think. I use Amarok 1.4.14 to play music. Ljubomir