k3b can't find mp3 decoder

Michael Hirsch mdhirsch at gmail.com
Mon May 7 05:00:22 UTC 2007


Following up to my own ost, I found the package, libk3b2-mp3, but it
was not in multiverse, but in universe or mediabuntu.  So if you have
having this problem, enable universe and download it.

Michael

On 5/6/07, Michael Hirsch <mdhirsch at gmail.com> wrote:
> Since upgrading my AMD64 system to feisty k3b has been unhappy.  When
> it starts up it complains:
> Mp3 Audio Decoder plugin not found.
> K3b could not load or find the Mp3 decoder plugin. This means that you
> will not be able to create Audio CDs from Mp3 files. Many Linux
> distributions do not include Mp3 support for legal reasons.
> Solution: To enable Mp3 support, please install the MAD Mp3 decoding
> library as well as the K3b MAD Mp3 decoder plugin (the latter may
> already be installed but not functional due to the missing libmad).
> Some distributions allow installation of Mp3 support via an online
> update tool (i.e. SuSE's YOU).
>
> According to adept, I have all the "mad" packages installed.  That is
> mostly just libmad0, but also gstreamer0.8-mad.  I even have
> libmad0-dev, though that shouldn't make any difference.
>
> I can't see any k3b mad decoder plugin listed anywhere.
>
> Clues?  What do I need to do to burn mp3s to a CD?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael
>




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