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How to play MP3 with Ubuntu

Friday, 17 de February del 2006
alombarteby alombarte
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It's usual to find many distributions without MP3 support due to licensing issues. If you have MP3 files and don't know how to play them do the following:

  1. Open the terminal
  2. Type sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
  3. Remove comments to packages (This is erasing the # characters in lines starting with ##deb)
  4. Save changes and close gedit
  5. Update the packages sudo apt-get update
  6. Install the mulitmedia codecs: sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.8-plugins sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.8-lame sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.8-ffmpeg sudo apt-get install w32codecs sudo apt-get install libdivx4linux sudo apt-get install lame sudo apt-get install sox sudo apt-get install ffmpeg sudo apt-get install mjpegtools sudo apt-get install vorbis-tools gst-register-0.8

Now you can open a player like Rythmbox or Kaffeine and start listening songs. Totem won't play mp3 with this. To associate mp3 files with a player, right-clic on a mp3 file and go to "Open with" tab.

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SW SW
This looks slightly more convenient:

sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.8-plugins gstreamer0.8-lame gstreamer0.8-ffmpeg w32codecs libdivx4linux lame sox ffmpeg mjpegtools vorbis-tools

gst-register-0.8
#1 28.08.2007 on 04:19
Nestor Wheelock Nestor Wheelock
Even more cut 'n paste:

sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.8-plugins gstreamer0.8-lame gstreamer0.8-ffmpeg w32codecs libdivx4linux lame sox ffmpeg mjpegtools vorbis-tools && gst-register-0.8
#3 05.10.2007 on 23:50
senthil senthil
senthil@senthil-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install w32codecs
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Package w32codecs is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package w32codecs has no installation candidate
senthil@senthil-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install libdivx4linux
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package libdivx4linux
senthil@senthil-desktop:~$

i cant install oly 2 packages
which doesnt allow to play mp3
#4 12.12.2007 on 14:17
alombarte alombarte
You need to add the sources to the sources.list, make update and try. I don't know what version of ubuntu you have, but that was working for 6.01 or 6.10
#5 12.12.2007 on 15:46
phonexATlinux phonexATlinux
hey even im facing the same problem as senthil has stated wht i shud i do now?
#6 14.01.2008 on 14:44
alombarte alombarte
Since I have all this packages from the old and updated version I can't try it now. I suggest uncomenting all the sources in the apt sources and try this as well:


sudo aptitude install gstreamer0.8-plugins-multiverse
sudo aptitude install gstreamer0.8-ffmpeg
sudo aptitude install libmad0
gst-register-0.8


If you can't play mp3 at this point install : AUTOMATIX
#7 03.02.2008 on 16:45

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