Audacious (formerly known as Beep Media Player)
Audacious or BMP as it was formerly known, is a rewrite of the classic XMMS player with a new, modern interface and various other featurs you would expect from a modern music player. All while keeping true to the lightweight, simple no-nonsense music player ideal. Due to legal issues support for various non-free formats , including mp3 files, aren't included in Audacious by default. You can add support for mp3 by installing an add-on package from third party add-on repository rpm.livna.org
Requirements
Doing the work
Installing Audacious
Audacious is not incuded by default, to use audacious you first have to install it:
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Enter:
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su -c 'yum install audacious'
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Audacious can be found in the menu, under "Sound & Video"
Adding support for non-free formats
As mentioned, legal issues stops Fedora from including support for non-free formats such as mp3. You can add plugins for playback and encoding to this format by installing the audacious-plugins-nonfree-mp3 package from rpm.livna.org
- Open a terminal
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Enter:
su -c 'yum install audacious-plugins-nonfree-mp3'
- Restart Audacious, it should now be able to play mp3.
Troubleshooting
If Audacious fails to play mp3 files, it's a good idea to check if the mp3-plugin is actually installed
How to test
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rpm -qf /usr/lib/audacious/Input/libmpg123.so
More Information
Disclaimer
Users should be aware of the legal limitations of the mp3 format and other non-free formats. Please do read the legal issues page.
We test this stuff on our own machines, really we do. But you may run into problems, if you do, come to #fedora on irc.freenode.net.
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