[CentOS] Celebrating Centos 6.0 Day World-wide

[Ljubomir Ljubojevic]

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