Chapter 20 . Playing Music and (Web hosting domain) Video 517
Chapter 20 . Playing Music and Video 517 If your distribution does not include support for MP3 playback with Rhythmbox, fear not there is hope! You can download updates for Rhythmbox at www .gstreamer.net. You want the package gstreamer-plugins-mp3. In addition to playing music files, Rhythmbox can launch Sound Juicer to rip CDs (see the Ripping CDs with Grip section later in the chapter for more on ripping CD audio). Rhythmbox can also play Internet radio stations. The easiest way to do this is to find a streaming radio station (look for Shoutcast PLS files, usually with a .pls extension). Save the PLS file, and then double-click the file in the Nautilus file browser. Nautilus comes configured to launch Rhythmbox for playing audio. Figure 20-4 shows Rhythmbox with three Internet radio stations. Figure 20-4: Rhythmbox playing Internet radio. The site www.di.fm lists a number of free Internet radio channels. Playing Music with XMMS Multimedia Player The XMMS (X Multimedia System) multimedia player provides a graphical interface for playing music files in MP3, Ogg Vorbis, WAV, and other audio formats. XMMS has some nice extras too, including an equalizer, a playlist editor, and the capability to add more audio plug-ins. One of its greatest attributes is that XMMS is easy to use. If the player looks familiar to you, that s because it is styled after the Windows Winamp program. Red Hat removed all software that does MP3 encoding or decoding because of patent concerns related to MP3 format. Although the XMMS player was designed to play MP3 files, the XMMS plug-in required to actually decode MP3 is not included. To add MP3 support back into your Red Hat/Fedora Core distribution, you can get and install an MP3 plug-in. One place to get RPM packages that support MP3 decoding is http://rpm.livna.org. They are also available from other sources, including www.xmms.org and www.gurulabs.com/ downloads.html. This issue does not necessarily apply to other Red Hat derived distributions, such as Mandrake 10.0. Note Tip Note
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