Re: cannot play MP3's in Fedora 25

On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 02:27:07AM +0000, Bob Nolty wrote:
> Hi all --
> =

> I've been using Rhythmbox for many years, thanks!=A0 But I recently upgra=
ded my desktop to Fedora 25 and I haven't got Rhythmbpox to play any MP3s.=
=A0 I first tried installing gstreamer1-plugins-* from RPMFusion; and when =
that didn't work I uninstalled gstreamer1-plugins-ugly and installed gstrea=
mer1-plugin-mpg123 and mpg123-libs from the default Fedora repositories, as=
 suggested by this page: =

> https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/9111/sticky-what-plugins-do-i-n=
eed-to-install-to-watch-movies-and-listen-to-music/
>  =

> In both cases, whenever I click on an MP3 song in rhythmbox, I get a noti=
fication that 'an application is requesting an additional codec', and a but=
ton to open the 'Software' application.  The Software application crashes b=
efore doing anything, but that's not your problem :-/
> =

> I can play MP3s with the mpg123 command line program and with VLC.  Totem=
 behaves essentially the same as Rhythmbox.
> =

> Any ideas?  Or is there a better place for me to ask?

Sorry it took so long for me to reply - I've been taking a bit of a break f=
rom
working on rhythmbox for various reasons that seem to be coming to an end n=
ow.

mp3 playback works fine for me on fedora 25 using mad (from rpmfusion's gst=
reamer1-plugins-ugly)
and mpegaudioparse (from gstreamer1-plugins-good).  I've just tried mpg123 =
and that seems to
work properly too.

Output from 'gst-launch-1.0 -m filesrc location=3Dfile.mp3 ! decodebin ! fa=
kesink' would probably help.