Comments on: MP3 on openSUSE – 5 Minute Fix

By: sat

sat — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:36:57 +0000

open suse is the best choice for rookie and experts both but for music lovers mandriva or sabayon is best
choice

By: sat

sat — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:33:33 +0000

terminal may be the best choice cause you can take over ownership by using sudo and su-login and it is lazy

By: sat

sat — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:28:07 +0000

i am not sure but it will give you dependency error

By: lighans

lighans — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 05:38:42 +0000

But why not just use: http://opensuse-community.org/Restricted_Formats/11.2 ? For the mentioned high qualified terminal haters, or the people like me who love terminal from time to time (like wget, of install or update) but are to lazy to copy paste.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:04:56 +0000

For openSUSE 11.2, I used the following command (from root directory):

# sudo cp home/owner/Download/fluendo-mp3-10.i386/codecs/libgstflump3dec.so usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/

Note: This may have been said already, but this fix only works for Banshee and not Kaffiene or Amarok.

Sure, it took longer than 5 minutes, but that’s because I just installed suse yesterday and I’m still adjusting to using the command line and learning how this file system is organized. This is also my first linux OS I’ve ever used.

But what was the most frustrating and time consuming was learning that this fix does NOT work with Kaffiene as well as Amarok. I had to download Banshee, which was a little confusing because the Banshee website says its preinstalled with openSUSE 11, but that must be only for the Gnome desktop and not the KDE one.

But in the end it was well worth it because, well, it works! I’m listening to Ace of Base right now, lol…

By: Giorgi

Giorgi — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:01:45 +0000

Yes, I’m absolutely agree with Tiago, I’ve tried a lot distributions of Linux, I had fedora, mandrake, Kubuntu… as for openSUSE, I had versions 9.2, 10.0, 11.0 and now I’ve downloaded 11.2 but still (although I’ve downloaded the released version) with no success to get fun. I’m Computer engineer and software developer (but on .NET platform) but as just man who loves everything related to computer science, I’m curious about Linux operating system, but I’m becoming frustrated too fast.

As for playing .mp3 files, I’ve already installed all the packages related to Amarok and Banshee players, also GStreamer plugins and I’ve downloaded this fluendo MP3 decoder and installed it, but with no success, I’m still unable to play my favorite music on open SUSE 11.2 x86_64 and I’m getting mad about this, I’m feeling just like ordinary computer ‘User’ who knows nothing but switching on and off the computer, I can’t stand the feelings like this.

By: Tiago

Tiago — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:12:58 +0000

I’m gonna rephrase what an user said here before: half of the postings here give the exact reason why Linux is still a product for freaks: Come on, command lines to install a package for doing the simplest task line playing mp3s? And then the package doesn’t work for a lot of people (including me)?
Every time I give Linux another chance, it just ends up in anger being forced to read endless how-to’s before I can even think of starting to work with it.. This is the 3rd distro i’ve tried and it ain’t getting no better, except for Ubuntu that makes everything VERY easy, compared to openSuse/Fedora etc…
peace out

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:18:55 +0000

Okay, here is how I (FINALLY – after two months of nothing useful and about three hours of hunting down file locations in openSUSE tonight) got Banshee to work in openSUSE 11.2.
After downloading the mp3 codec from fluendo, do this:

cd /home/[your name]/Desktop/fluendo-mp3-10.x86

Then, do the following copy command to the following file location:

cp libgstflump3dec.so /usr/lib64/gstreamer-0.10

Thanks to Chris and Keith for some hints.

By: John

John — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 04:51:08 +0000

this is only some just give a better distro a chance ive been using linux for years and found it very reliable in the old days i can remember mp3s working out of the box but seriously its not linux’s fault.

By: John

John — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 04:48:32 +0000

Just use kubuntu or ubuntu all you do is double click on the mp3 file and it prompts you to search for a codec enter your password and 10 seconds later your good to go. or just install the restricted-extras so really there is no excuse for this