MP3 Playback in YDL4

[Henry A. Leinhos]

Hi List,

There have been a few suggestions regarding the broken mp3 support in 
YDL4 (as well as Fedora Core 2).  While searching some fedora lists I 
found a few references to two rpm packages to put the mp3 back in 
Rhythmbox as well as xmms.

(a side note:  after looking in the spec file for gstreamer-plugins, I 
was amazed at the effort made by the Fedora people to rip this stuff out 
of the code! It was one of the most involved spec files I've seen in a 
while.)
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Fixing mp3 playback in YDL4 in 3 easy steps
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1. Rhythmbox
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(build/install gstreamer-plugins-mp3)

make sure you have the following packages:

glib2-devel
gstreamer-devel
libmad-devel
libid3tag-devel
lame-devel

get the source rpm with:

wget 
http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/2/i386/SRPMS.stable/gstreamer-plugins-mp3-0.8.2-0.lvn.1.2.src.rpm


then rebuild the package (as root):

rpmbuild --rebuild gstreamer-plugins-mp3-0.8.2-0.lvn.1.2.src.rpm

and finally install (as root):

rpm -Uvh 
/usr/src/yellowdog/RPMS/ppc/gstreamer-plugins-mp3-0.8.2-0.lvn.1.2.ppc.rpm

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2. XMMS

(build/install xmms-mp3)

make sure the following packages are installed

gtk+-devel
glib-devel
xmms-devel

get the source rpm:
wget 
http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/2/i386/SRPMS.stable/xmms-mp3-1.2.10-0.lvn.2.2.src.rpm

rebuild the package (as root):

rpmbuild --rebuild xmms-mp3-1.2.10-0.lvn.2.2.src.rpm

then install (as root):

rpm -Uvh /usr/src/yellowdog/RPMS/ppc/xmms-mp3-1.2.10-0.lvn.2.2.ppc.rpm

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3. Fix /etc/modprobe.conf:

change:
alias snd-card-0 dmasound_pmac
install dmasound_pmac /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install dmasound_pmac && 
/usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
remove dmasound_pmac { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; 
/sbin/m

to:

alias snd-card-0 snd-powermac
install snd-powermac /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-powermac && 
/usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
remove snd-powermac { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; 
/sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-powermac
                                                                                


in order to reload the sound drivers, you'll have to log out of 
GNOME/KDE, switch to another virtural terminal,  ctrl-alt-F1, and remove 
the old sound modules:

/sbin/rmmod dmasound_pmac
/sbin/rmmod dmasound_core

The next time you log in the proper modules should load.

YMMV