Re: Please help Linux newbie. How do I play mp3 files using Linux? And what are Codexes?
- From: "Lew Pitcher" <lpitcher@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 6 Oct 2006 08:33:53 -0700
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tomzam@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I'm trying to play some mp3 files on my Linux box. I'm running Fedora
Core 4. First thing I tried, when I found out my Helix player couldn't
play MP3's (well it can't with my limited knowledge [as a Linux newbie]
on how to change things), was to try to install RealPlayer. However,
when I ran the real player installer I got the following message:
error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory.
I've looked around elsewhere and found out there are things called
codex's. Which, at this point, is out of my experience range. Do
codex's allow player to play files that are in different formats? If
yes, where do you get them and how are they installed?
But that's not my main question. The main one is:
What do I have to do to be able to play mp3's on my Linux box?
ITYM "Codec" (plural: codecs). The term "codec" comes from the words
"COder and DECoder". A codec is a component (originally hardware, but
now software) that encodes and decodes data streams. In your case, a
codec is specifically the module that converts MP3 (or other audio
data) into hearable data. You need an MP3 codec in order to listen to
MP3 data.
As for your RealPlayer error, I believe that this is a known problem
with RealPlayer. The RealPlayer program requires a library (a "DLL" to
the Windows crowd) that you do not have on your system. Normally, it
would not be difficult to get this library so that RealPlayer will
work, but you'd have to do it manually. RPM would probably throw a
dependancy fit, and downgrade most of your software if you used it to
install the library with.
However, all is not lost. Your Fedora system comes with a number of
utilities that will play MP3 files. You just have to find one. Someone
more knowledgable on Fedora can (and probably will) suggest an
appropriate alternative. However, I can suggest such tools as mpg321,
mpg123, lien, ximp3, TrueMusic, or any one of hundreds of other MP3
players for Linux.
HTH
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Lew Pitcher
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