Add mp3 support for Fedora 17

Posted on Mi 14 November 2012 in Fedora

Because of licensing reasons there are is no codex for the mp3 format included in Fedora by default. If you want to play mp3 files you need the following additional packages:

gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-ffmpeg

This packages are available in the RPMForge repository. Install this two RPMForge repositories:

rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm

rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm

Now you should be able to install the needed packages using yum:

yum install gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-ffmpeg

Now you should be able to play mp3.