Enable MP3 Playback on Fedora 16

I always struggle with quickly enabling MP3 playback on a fresh install of Fedora. There are legal reasons (which I’m not interested in) as to why Fedora doesn’t ship with MP3 support right out of the box. So; that’s what third-party repositories are for. Simply install the RPM Fusion repository and then install the “Ugly” GStreamer Plugin.

# yum localinstall –nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
# yum install gstreamer-plugins-ugly

If you need other support you can always install all the plugins for GStreamer…

# yum install gstreamer-plugins-*

Another method is simply installing VLC. This media player is bursting at its seams with codex goodness.

# yum install vlc

You’re welcome!

This entry was posted by Marc Ferguson on November 19, 2011 at 11:49 am, and is filed under Linuxapade. Follow any responses to this post through RSS 2.0.You can leave a response or trackback from your own site.

http://knowurpc.wordpress.com/ Israel

Dude, thank you. Nice Article!
Schwarherz

THANK YOU! This was driving me INSANE!
JEsquivelNavas

Thanks a lot man
LB

Thank you a lot. It works nicely.
Okudude

thanks dude!!
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Spinbanks

thank u sooooooo much. Not just for knowing what you’re talking about but for also I wanted to thank you for being efficient, and saving me extra time from downloading all the gstreamer plugins. I’m an ubuntu freak, so I’ve been spoiled, I guess you could say I’m like a fish out of water in Fedora so after not being able to listen to music for a whole week, I’m sure you can imagine my frustration. Anyways thanks again. you’re the greatest.
http://www.fergytech.com Marc Ferguson

Funny you say that. I’m actually getting more face-time with Ubuntu on my wife’s laptop. I like the “apt-get update” option to refresh the repo list. I need to figure out how to do that with YUM. How do you like (or not) Fedora so far?
BogdanPaun

thanks
Karthik

Excellent!!! very good article!!! it worked for me to
FedoraFriend

Transaction Summary
======================================================================================
Install 15 Packages (+41 Dependent packages)

Total download size: 154 M
Installed size: 191 M
Is this ok [y/N]: N

Indeed I suppose a fast and easy ( quick&dirty ) way to add mp3 support to your fedora 16, but this istallation requires 191 Mb of hard disk space, and a traffic of 154 Mb of packages. Not the best solution for more optimized situations
http://www.fergytech.com Marc Ferguson

…and I agree with you FedoraFriend. Could you provide me with a more efficient solution? I’d be more than happy to edit this post.
N00b

Good guidance.
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