Music player does not play my mp3's

Asked by Quintin

I have been haveing this problem for a while now. Movie Player just sits there like it doesn't know what to do with the mp3's. Before a few updates we had it was working fine.
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04
totem Movie Player 2.22.1
app --> help --> about
Totem Movie Player 2.22.1
Movie Player using GStreamer 0.10.18 and GNOME
Copyright © 2002-2007 Bastien Nocera

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Dec 3 11:57:09 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem-gstreamer
Package: totem-gstreamer 2.22.1-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_ZA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: totem
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-22-generic i686

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This question was originally filed as bug #304760.

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Quintin (grall-hellscream) said :
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) said :
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Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said :
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Play mp3 and dvd under Ubuntu

First please install https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats

You need to have extra repositories enabled..

Please first enable the multiverse repository:

Open System → Administration → Software sources → [ Tab Ubuntu software ]
enable "Software restrictecd by copyright or legal issue ( multiverse )"
Close and confirm the repository reload.

Type the following command in a terminal (applications → accessories → terminal)

sudo aptitude install vlc

To get better dvd playback first you need to add the medibuntu http://www.medibuntu.org/ repository to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:
here howto add https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu here the medibuntu available software list http://packages.medibuntu.org/

Then to install:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
sudo aptitude install libdvdread3 libdvdnav4 libdvdcss2
sudo aptitude install non-free-codecs gstreamer0.10-pitfdll w32codecs

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Hope this helps

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