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wav and mp3 sounds not available

Asked by kapthar

We use several web references with both .wav and .mp3 format on the same page.

For example http://www.russianforeveryone.com/RufeA/Lessons/Introduction/Alphabet/Alphabet.htm

We use many sites like this, with various languages.

We are not able to get the sound for these using Linux.

They come through fine using MS W7.

We loaded Linux Java Propitiatory software hoping it would help.

It did not.

We wonder if anyone can suggest a solution.

We have checked the Ubuntu answer site and blogs and find nothing.

We don't think we are the only ones with this problem but can't find anyone else.

Helpful suggestions will be appreciated.

Many thanks

Kapt.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Do you get sounds in other apps?

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kapthar (bizhost) said : 		#2

When in the Chrome browser and Firefox browser we can get sound from the mp3 files. nothing, in Chromium - nothing, in others.

Thanks

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Nathan Heafner (nathan1465-5) said : 		#3

can you review this article
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/MP3

and then run this in terminal
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

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Nathan Heafner (nathan1465-5) said : 		#4

Note: to open terminal press CTRL+ALT+T

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kapthar (bizhost) said : 		#5

Thanks, The first thing we tried was getting the Propitiatory software (restricted). It doesn't help with this.
This is a problem that we may have to use MS as the OS. Hate to do that but not many alternatives.
Thanks again.
Kapt

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#6

How is this:

This is a problem that we may have to use MS as the OS. Hate to do that but not many alternatives.

of any value to the question. Keep to the details please.

Can you give the output of:

lsb_release -a; uname -a

Thanks

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kapthar (bizhost) said : 		#7

I ran it a couple of times, t
This is what I have :

capt@Satone:~$ lsb_release -a;
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 11.04
Release: 11.04
Codename: natty
capt@Satone:~$ uname -a
Linux Satone 2.6.38-13-generic #53-Ubuntu SMP Mon Nov 28 19:33:45 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
capt@Satone:~$ lsb_release -a;
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 11.04
Release: 11.04
Codename: natty
capt@Satone:~$
Thanks

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#8

sudo -E wget --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list && sudo apt-get --quiet update && sudo apt-get --yes --quiet --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get --quiet update; sudo apt-get install w64codecs

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