Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] flac audio format support

[Jonathan Matthew <notverysmart gmail com>]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 06:33:15PM -0400, Kevin Hunter wrote:
> At 9:35a -0400 on Mon, 11 Aug 2008, Peter wrote:
> > 2008/8/11 Felix Corrales <felixcorrales yahoo com>:
> >> Please include a .flac audio format support in rhythmbox.
> > 
> > Rhythmbox does support flac - you just need to install the relevant
> > bits of gstreamer.  How you do that will depend on which Linux
> > distribution are you using.
> 
> I've heard this thrust of question get asked more often, both here and
> offlist.  If Rhythmbox can't play the file, what's the barrier to some
> simple code that determines what codec they need to install?

We added that in 0.11.4.
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/gst-plugins-base-libs/html/gst-plugins-base-libs-gstpbutilsinstallplugins.html
for more information.