Re: [Banshee-List] moving from sled to suse - mp3 and aac support

[Aleksander Helgaker <aleksander helgaker yahoo co uk>]

I checked the site and it seems that helix is dual licenced under open-source and as closed source. I expect the closed source one supports propriatery stuff.

I have the installation DVD for OpenSuse 10.2. Does it contain the adon software or do I still need the adon cd?

Joonas Niilola <juippis roskakori org> wrote:

Yes, Banshee rocks ;-). It does much more than that too.

You made a good choice choosing your distribution. I'm using openSUSE
10.2 and have support for mp3s. I can't use iPod (I don't even own
one) because I'm using the "official" Banshee and not Novell's one.

I really thought Helix _wasn't: open source. I can be wrong though.
But yes, Helix supports mp3 and iPod. Helix can be found onthe AddOn
CD, or on the DVD. It depends on how you're going to install your
openSUSE. So when installing, be sure to include Addon CD if you're
using the CDs. And when installing, be sure to select Helix-Banshee.

You can get mp3 support to the newer Banshee by getting the
fluendo-GStreamer-plugin. Get it here:
https://shop.fluendo.com/
Do not worry, it's free and it's already compiled. You just have to
extract and copy it to a right directory which would be
/opt/gnome/lib64/gstreamer-0.10 or /opt/gnome/lib/gstreamer-0.10
(depending on if you have 32 or 64-bit system). Remember, that's only
decoder. There's no fluendo-encoder available so you can't put your
mp3s to an iPod for example. I still recommend using Helix-Banshee.


Hopefully you get everything working out-of-the-box without headaches.

--
Joonas 'Juippis' Niilola

On 1/14/07, Aleksander Helgaker wrote:
> First of all I'd just like to say that banshee is a
> brilliant music player. There are others which have
> features I miss in banshee but they also suffer from
> being bloatware. Banshee seems to be doing it right.
>
> Anyway, strait to the point. I originally chose SLED
> 10 as my distro because it seemed to be the most
> polished distro available. Now OpenSuSE seems to be
> the best choice as it has the sleek interface of SLED
> and also has the advantage of more frequent software
> updates. My only question is concerning mp3 and aac
> support. If I install OpenSuSE how would I go about
> getting mp3 and aac support into banshee? I know Helix
> is open-source. Does it support mp3 and aac out of the box?
>
>
>
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