Comments on: Fix for rhythmbox not playing mp3 in Ubuntu karmic

By: Stuart

Stuart — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 03:16:51 +0000

Solution:

From Synaptic select.

ubuntu-restricted-extras

Ubuntu cannot add certain decoders etc because of rights issues. This includes .mp3

I wish they made this obvious though.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:16:39 +0000

It worked for me. Prior to reinstalling rythmbox, I downloaded a couple of plugins.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:32:00 +0000

I got it…after doing a clean install, and throwing away my livecd, I tried to open an MP3 in Totem. It suggest 3 new packages, I automatically did an install of them via Synaptic, and fixed the problem. Now…Ubuntu, just works.

By: George

George — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:15:22 +0000

I had a new install of Karmic and Rhythmbox wouldn’t work for me. I searched extensively on the internet and Ubuntu forums and bricked my OS trying to do a broadbased update (which I still don’t understand why that happened), with no success. Tried this and it worked! I literally stood up and cheered! You rock!

By: dehumanizer

dehumanizer — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:07:38 +0000

Ihe package ubuntu-restricted-extras resolved my problem too!

cheers

By: Mike Shafer

Mike Shafer — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 03:18:44 +0000

Hey All!

Using Synaptic Package Manager and installing the
ubuntu-restricted-extras resolved the problem with Rhythmbox not handling mp3s.

Cheers!

By: DigiMouk

DigiMouk — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:43:37 +0000

This problem is not experienced if music was ripped to FLAC or OGG format.

By: Ytse Wolf

Ytse Wolf — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 06:08:45 +0000

This worked for me.

sudo apt-get install streamer

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:21:24 +0000

Go to the ubuntu software center and type in mp3. You can then download the restricted extras.
It added mp3 as an option to rip too.

By: Theo

Theo — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:13:13 +0000

I thought i solved it! I mean the first solution didn’t work at all so i’d tried different things… I searched for multiverse variants on synaptics and I install things related to id3 (that’s the error showed on rhythmbox) like python-id3 and libtagc0, i’m not sure but try something like that maybe it’s work!

By: DesperateScholar

DesperateScholar — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:10:31 +0000

I was having a similar problem when upgrading from Hardy Heron. And it still failed after I tried to reinstall it. Turns out that rhythmbox now stores its configuration files in

~/.local/share/rhythmbox/

instead of

~/.gnome2/rhythmbox/

Therefore you might need to delete the configuration files from this old location before reinstalling the app will work.

By: ProjectH

ProjectH — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:59:16 +0000

Come on guys, the guy/gal is asking about the solution, I have the same problem and I’m trying to know how to fix it through the internet. I found this page during my search, and it’s not quite helpful. We need solution not argument, so if anyone knows how to fix this problem please share your knowledge with us. Thanks in advance.

By: Efren

Efren — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:49:30 +0000

Hey!

any major distrobution couldn’t just put your mp3 or other codecs because they are NOT FREE. You need to pay royalty and some stuff licensing to include their codecs.If mp3 and other codecs formats was FREE for redistribution without fear of being drag to court and pay some hefty fine and intellectual properties rights brouhaha then all linux distro have included it in their distro. Just think on the other side (put yourself on the other “shoes”) Most don’t want you to tinker with the command line. That’s why they are thinking of making it easier and if you cant do such simple task then you’re welcome to pay for you’re OS. nobody is forcing you to use linux and not all distro are aiming to be newbie friendly.

Good day!

By: Newb

Newb — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:52:18 +0000

(must have prematurly hit the send key)

…one has a background in computer science. The people who think this way ought to ask themselves how many mainstream operating systems require their users to use command prompt on a regular basis? Or how many major distributions require the users to dig around to find ways to get things like mp3 players to work (which never happens in a major distribution). I know people are doing this in their spare time, but if you really want Linux to become mainstream you need to realize that there are some things that normal people don’t want to have to put up with. It should be designed with the idea in mind that they should have to put up with it.

By: Newb

Newb — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:31:03 +0000

It didn’t work for me either.

Oh yeah people saying things like

“ubuntu sucks… 4 the weak minded”

or the famous: “What did you pay for it”

Are the main reasons Linux will never become mainstream. People who have lives don’t want to spend their time trying to figure out why something that ought to work doesn’t work, and then be insulted when they’re unable to. Personally I think Linux has it’s good points. The main problem it has is with those who are blinded into thinking that every

By: jon

jon — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:38:38 +0000

ubuntu sucks… 4 the weak minded

By: Ubuntu Hater

Ubuntu Hater — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:28:17 +0000

Doesnt work for me, and I upgraded my version of ubuntu. Rhythmbox finds no plugins to install.

Lets face it, ubuntu sucks.

By: hosh

hosh — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:40:13 +0000

i think only upgraders have this problem.. i did a clean install.. and it works just fine..