Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Playing iTunes songs

[Nathan Muggli <nathanmuggli sbbco net>]

Peter -

I finally had a chance to do this and it worked great - I can now listen 
to my iTunes songs on Linux.  Thanks again for your help.

Nathan

Peter Robinson wrote:

> > Thanks for the reply.  I'm using FC3, but I'm not too familiar with any
> > of the administrative stuff.  I've mostly used 'yum' when I want
> > something new, and I've tried this to get the newest gstreamer but still
> > no luck.  Do you happen to know how to get these addons that you are
> > talking about and how to install them?  I've not dealt with rpms much.
> > Thanks again.
> >    
>
> Should be as simple as doing the following:
>
> wget http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/3/freshrpms-release/freshrpms-release-1-1.fc.fr.noarch.rpm
> rpm -ivh freshrpms-release-1-1.fc.fr.noarch.rpm
> yum install gstreamer-plugins-extra-audio
>
> You can find the package list available at
> http://heidelberg.freshrpms.net/ there are a number of pre-built
> packages to add extra functionality such as various audio/video codecs
> etc. Work out the name of the binary package and do a 'yum install
> package-name' and yum will pull in any extras that you need. Other
> worth while packages are also gstreamer-plugins-extra-video,
> gstreamer-plugins-extra-dvd and gstreamer-ffmpeg, yum will pull in any
> other packages you may need.
>
> Peter
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