[Omega_Shadow]

Ok, now that I can get to my music files (Thanx Lynch), I find that I can not play them. Something about not having a MP3 plugin. Trying to use Rhythmbox 0.8.8, though all players installed will not play MP3s eather. Any ideas?

[Calipso]

http://www.fedorafaq.org/

This guide should really help you out.

[Omega_Shadow]

That plug-in only alowed for about one third of my MP3s to be played. The rest of them crash the players the moment I click on them.

[Squashman]

Use this.
http://www.xmms.org/

[Omega_Shadow]

Tryed that already. While Rythombox just shuts down, Xmms just will not play them. I dont understand why though. Winamp plays them fine in windows. Xmms is winamps code modifided for linux, isnt it?

[Omega_Shadow]

***BUMP***
I hope someone can help me fix this. Once I figure out how to get my MP3's to play I can do away with windows (exept for gameing of course). This is the change I have been wanting to make for the past 5 months. I am a tad overexited at the thought of preforming my day-to-day rutine in a non-windows enviroment. The sooner I migrate into FC, the better

[Calipso]

if playlists arent important to you, and you just want to simply be able to play single mp3's, go to real.com and download real player 10 for linux. It will allow you to play mp3s just fine.

good luck.

[Omega_Shadow]

I have so many MP3s I need a media Library to keep track of them all. Thanx for the suggestion though.

[Omega_Shadow]

I looked closely at the MP3 files that the players can and can not play and looked for differinces. Symbols in the filename do not have an effect ether way, neather do bitrates. This is very irritating to me

[iOXeR]

Do you have apt-get installed? If not go to this website. Apt-get is not needed, but trust me, it comes in handy so much. Follow the instructions on the website for installing apt, with the following exceptions.

- Do not do the following step. 'apt-get dist-upgrade'

- Do the following step after doing the "apt-get upgrade"
'cd /etc/apt/sources.list.d
su
<root password>
rm *.list
<y if prompted>
tar -xf /path/to/repo.tar'

Then, when you're finished with that, go to this website. Install Lame and any other packages you want to install. To do this, go to the command line, type 'su', type your root password, and type 'apt-get install packagename' where packagename is the name of the package you want to install. Here's an example

su
<root password>
apt-get install lame

Make sure you install all the mp3 codec packages. This should solve your problems.

[EDIT]
I suggest getting Beep Media player, bmp, for your mp3 or any other audio. This is directly related, but I recommend vlc media player for any video you might play.

[Omega_Shadow]

I followed the instructions and now yum and apt get are giving me errors!
And I still can only play some of my Mp3s. I tryed installng every codec that I could find. Most of them I already had. Still Nothing. Any way to completely uninstall the codecs I got and get fresh ones just in case there are problems from their install?

[liquidBass]

Try to add the Livna repositories to your yum.conf and install the Mad libraries, lame, and Gstreamer plugins (actually everything Gstreamer related) - rpm DOT livna DOT org. That worked for me. Now all the players play everything

[Omega_Shadow]

already tryed that. mad, lame and gstreamer are already installed (unless I am typeing them in wrong: yum install mad)

[liquidBass]

Right, then, try this: yum install yumex
If I remember correctly yumex is in the Extras repository (might be livna). Yumex is a graphical frontend to yum. After it's installed, run it and go to the "Repos" tab. Make sure livna is checked and press "Refresh". Go to the "Install" tab and make a filter "mp3" and see what you come up with. There should be a whole bunch of things. Install the ones that might seem relevant. Might want to do another search/install for other relevant things after that. Yumex makes things a tad easier, especially when you don't know exactly what you're searching for

[Omega_Shadow]

I am trying to install a few things through yumex and I keep getting a "Public Key Not Available" error

Edit> And why didnt anyone tell me YUM had a GUI earlier!! Would have made things so much easyer!