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I haven't used either of these programs because none of the three
computers I have ubuntu installed on has a CD/DVD burner, but while
looking around on the web I noticed that Brasero uses gstreamer to do
all the audio gruntwork (and likely the video stuff too?). I would
check to make sure that gstreamer is handling mp3s properly, first.
MP3s have always been a source of trouble for me on linux because of
the licensing issues, and any 'fix' you may have followed to make mp3s
play may not have actually 'solved' the problem. There was a way in
the past to make mp3s play using xmms, but I'm not sure that it
actually made mp3s recognizable to other programs.<br>
<br>
In ubuntu there are several different gstreamer plugins that handle a
variety of free/open-source and patented/licensed codecs:<br>
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good<br>
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad<br>
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse<br>
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly<br>
<br>
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly? In ubuntu 7.10 the mp3 functionality
was in the 'ugly' gstreamer package. Pop open Synaptic and see if you
have these plugins installed already. You may have to enable software
sources for multiverse, restricted, etc to make these packages
available. If you're like me and you tend not to pay a whole lot of
attention to licensing and whatnot, then I'd recommend enabling all the
sources and just pulling down all the gstreamer plugins, but otherwise
you should talk to someone who knows something. Luckily, none of my
ubuntu installs does much other than running server software (Ubuntu
8.04LTS Server) or keeping an eye on servers (Ubuntu 10.04LTS Netbook
Remix), so I haven't had to deal with those issues... I assume my iPod
Touch is properly licensed to play mp3s, and I assume that if Windows 7
isn't, Microsoft can foot the bill. Maybe I'll have a look on my
netbook to see if transcoding works, though.<br>
<br>
--Matt<br>
<br>
On 6/2/2010 9:34 PM, Jason Warden wrote:
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cite="mid:AANLkTil76YxE2Pc-7yPyyLNEWWp2vC0ZhL4BTeguWgtb@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Hey & hello - <br>
After a few years not really using Linux I dived back in and dedicated
by main machine to Ubuntu. I am STILL aglow over how easy the install
is. I used all the big distros from the early 2000s, Mandrake, SuSE,
and am amazed how far the desktop has come. No configuring anything in
/etc, no hardware that didn't work right, none of the old hassles. Very
easy to find the software to play proprietary software like mp3s or
wmvs . Synaptic works and even after I installed everything under the
sun it still works. (still have nightmares over urmpi) Very impressed.
The only real difficulty I had was finding a music player that worked
with my Creative Zen mp3 player but once I got Amarok working (it
needed a couple tweaks) I am flying.<br>
I do have one question, and I'm sure there's an idiot-proof solution
but I can't find it. I tried the two major cd burning programs for
burning audio, the Brasero and k3b. Brasero looks good but for me
doesn't work - every time it gets to transcoding mp3s it crashes and
leaves a weird looking file in my temp drive. k3b, better, but won't
autotranscode mp3s I drop in - I have to make 'em .wavs in a term
window and then I can burn. Is there a way to either make k3b behave
with mp3s or is there some wonderful program I don't know exists?<br>
<br>
(also, what the heck happened to xmms? I got a lot of 'stuff' from
synaptic but nothing gives me the traditional xmms. Which is a shame
because it had a really easy way to make flacs and mp3s and whatever
you want into .wavs...)<br>
<br>
-Jason<br>
<br>
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