Playing MP3′s on Fedora
I have a desktop pc at home running Fedora 7 as OS. The normal question when a Windows user sits on it is where’s your sound or MP3 player? Since it’s something new to them they often look for the all familiar Windows Media Player.
Fedora 7 as an open source OS does not ship and support MP3 by default. This due to some licensing and patent issues. There a lot of MP3 players in the Linux environment. My personal favorite are BMPx and VLC media players. MP3 was popular but the open source multimedia codecs are superior and you need not worry about patents. Thus, I support the promotion of Ogg family of codecs like Ogg Vorbis (lossy), FLAC (lossless) for general audio, Speex for speech, and Ogg Theora for video. You could also convert your audio and video files to Ogg multimedia codecs.
Don’t worry you still can play MP3′s on Linux Fedora with either BMPx or VLC Media Player. Try installing one and you’ll be amazed that the experience is not far from what you have in Windows Media Player. Go open source it’s not really that difficult after all.
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Friday, September 7th, 2007 at 8:19 pm under 