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Operating Systems Linux FEDORA HELP(please) Post 83247 by deckard on Tuesday 13th of September 2005 08:30:30 AM
Old 09-13-2005
MP3 Support is not in Fedora

The Fedora project has dropped MP3 support in their bundled players due to licensing issues. You have a few options:

You could go to: http://www.xmms.org/download.php and use XMMS to play MP3s. You may need to compile the program itself. You could also try Xine: http://xinehq.de or MPLayer: http://mplayerhq.hu

The bundled media players in Fedora only play unrestricted audio formats. It's basically stupid legal issues that are messing with MP3 support. I imagine you have a collection of MP3s you want to play. I would suggest trying one of the above players. If you don't want to compile anything, you could also try: http://www.real.com and get the latest RealPlayer10 for Linux. It's better than the Windows version because it doesn't load extra programs you don't want and it doesn't blast you with ads. It will play a decent selection of files including MP3 and Ogg Vorbis.

Finally, if you rip your own stuff, you might want to give Sound Juicer a try (comes bundled with Fedora) and rip your music to Ogg Vorbis. It compresses better than MP3 and can be resampled in real time for streaming at a lower bitrate without needing to reencode your files at different bitrates. If you have an MP3 player that you load music onto, then you might want to at least try the FLAC format for archiving on your computer and then convert that to MP3 as needed with the 'lame' utility located at: http://lame.sourceforge.net/

This isn't a limitation of Linux, it's a limitation of the licensing for MP3. And sadly, money and lawyers make the world go round today...

Last edited by deckard; 09-13-2005 at 03:10 PM.. Reason: mistyped "world" as "word" at the end of the document.
 

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modinfo(1M)						  System Administration Commands					       modinfo(1M)

NAME
modinfo - display information about loaded kernel modules SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/modinfo [-c] [-w] [-i module-id] DESCRIPTION
The modinfo utility displays information about the loaded modules. The format of the information is as follows: Id Loadaddr Size Info Rev Module Name where Id is the module ID, Loadaddr is the starting text address in hexadecimal, Size is the size of text, data, and bss in hexadecimal bytes, Info is module specific information, Rev is the revision of the loadable modules system, and Module Name is the filename and description of the module. The module specific information is the block and character major numbers for drivers, the system call number for system calls, and unspeci- fied for other module types. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: -c Display the number of instances of the module loaded and the module's current state. -i module-id Display information about this module only. -w Do not truncate module information at 80 characters. EXAMPLES
Example 1: Displaying the Status of a Module The following example displays the status of module 2: example% modinfo -i 2 Id Loadaddr Size Info Rev Module Name 2 ff08e000 1734 - 1 swapgeneric (root and swap configuration) Example 2: Displaying the Status of Kernel Modules The following example displays the status of some kernel modules: example% modinfo Id Loadaddr Size Info Rev Module Name 2 ff08e000 1734 - 1 swapgeneric 4 ff07a000 3bc0 - 1 specfs (filesystem for specfs) 6 ff07dbc0 2918 - 1 TS (time sharing sched class) 7 ff0804d8 49c - 1 TS_DPTBL (Time sharing dispatch table) 8 ff04a000 24a30 2 1 ufs (filesystem for ufs) 9 ff080978 c640 226 1 rpcmod (RPC syscall) 9 ff080978 c640 - 1 rpcmod (rpc interface str mod) 10 ff08cfb8 2031c - 1 ip (IP Streams module) 10 ff08cfb8 2031c 2 1 ip (IP Streams device) Example 3: Using the -c Option Using the modinfo command with the -c option displays the number of instances of the module loaded and the module's current state. example% modinfo -c Id Loadcnt Module Name State 1 0 krtld UNLOADED/UNINSTALLED 2 0 genunix UNLOADED/UNINSTALLED 3 0 platmod UNLOADED/UNINSTALLED 4 0 SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi UNLOADED/UNINSTALLED 5 0 cl_bootstrap UNLOADED/UNINSTALLED 6 1 specfs LOADED/INSTALLED 7 1 swapgeneric UNLOADED/UNINSTALLED 8 1 TS LOADED/INSTALLED 9 1 TS_DPTBL LOADED/INSTALLED 10 1 ufs LOADED/INSTALLED 11 1 fssnap_if LOADED/INSTALLED ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Evolving | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
modload(1M), modunload(1M), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 1 Oct 2002 modinfo(1M)
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