play MP3 on Fedora

To enable MP3 support, the rpmfusion repository should be added to Yum.

Fedora 9, 10, and 11

• $ su -c 'rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm'

• $ su -c 'rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm'

Once rpmfusion is enabled, the easiest way to enable all the freeworld/nonfree codec support, is to:

• yum update @sound-and-video

Amarok 1.4 (Xine Engine)

• yum install amarok-extras-freeworld

Amarok 1.4 (Helix Engine)

•  sudo rpm -ivh RealPlayer11GOLD.rpm

• Following is Required for Real player - dependencies
  

•  sudo yum install compat-libstdc++-33
  

For Amarok 2 (using phonon-backend-gstreamer):

• yum install gstreamer-plugins-ugly

• yum install gstreamer-plugins-mp3

Refernces:

• http://fedorasolved.org/post-install-solutions/yum-config
• http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/MP3_on_Fedora_Core_5
• http://www.fedorafaq.org/#mp3&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=in&client=firefox-a
• http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-desktop-74/unable-to-play-mp3s-on-fedora-core-5-475962/
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