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>6. MP3</H1
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>Fedora won't ship MP3-capable software because the Fraunhofer
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Institute's patent license terms are not compatible with the GPL.</P
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>The default music player in FC5 is Rhythmbox. I struggled with
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Rhythmbox for several hours, but despite its pretty face I found it
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unusable. It ignores track numbers — or, at least, is not as smart
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at parsing them out of filenames as xmms is, and doesn't document its
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import rules anywhere. Trying to beat it into playing MP3s is a nightmare
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so scarifying that at one point I thought I was going to have to reinstall
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my entire Linux system just to get the ability to play Oggs back, because I
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couldn't figure out what piece of undocumented application state had gotten
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scrambled or how to clear it. The documentation is in general a bad joke
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— glossy, superficial, and with no useful content about
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troubleshooting problems. The xmms player may not be as featureful or as
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nice-looking, but it works better.</P
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>To install xmms and make it MP3-capable, start by doing this:</P
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> yum install xmms xmms-mp3
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>To actually enable MP3 playing, you'll need to run xmms and change
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its configuration. Select Options → Preferences → Audio I/O
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Plugins from the menu; this will pop up a window listing plugins. Select
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"MPEG Layer 1/2/3 Placeholder Plugin" and uncheck [ ] Enable Plugin. With
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this placeholder gone, xmms will plug in xmms-mp3 automatically. Kill xmms
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and restart.</P
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>On my x86_64 box I encountered the problem that xmms would only play
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sound as root, exiting immediately when run from a non-root account.
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There are a number of mundane causes for this; check the permissions on
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your sound devices. There is one <A
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>exotic
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problem</A
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> which I tripped over; you may have to tell your sound
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module to grab low-memory DMA buffers and not let go of them.</P
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>To enable MP3 streaming through Firefox or Mozilla, install the
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gstreamer-ugly plugin and ffmpeg as described below. MP3 streams will
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play through xmms, podcasts through Totem.</P
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