[Wolves] Ubuntu and MP3 support

Simon Morris mozrat at gmail.com
Thu Oct 27 23:25:56 BST 2005


On 27/10/05, Tom Jemmett <tom.jemmett at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I noticed that many of you lot use Ubuntu, and I have just got a
> friend to try out linux, pointing him in the direction of Ubuntu.  He
> has come to me complaining that he cannot play mp3's in the 5.04
> release.  I realise that there are legal issues with using mp3's which
> is why some distro's don't support it out of the box.  I currently use
> Debian Etch, and IIRC, I had mp3 support from when I installed it.
> Could you point me in the right direction in what to install?  Is it a
> matter of installing something like mplayer and it working?  Thanks in
> advance,

Like this?

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=ubuntu+mp3+support

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