SOLVED- thanks! was [Re: recording sound and saving in/ exporting to MP3]

[Lisi Reisz]

On Thursday 30 April 2009 19:47:46 Roy Smith wrote:
> Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > I am wanting to install win32codecs, files for MP3 etc. et al., with an
> > initial view to being able to chose MP3 as my filetype in Gnome Sound
> > Recorder.  So I found instructions on the net and tried to add the
> > Medibuntu repositories to my sources list.
> >
> > I now have a Medibuntu entry in sources.list.d, but nothing in
> > sources.list and Synaptic does not seem to be using it.
> >
> > I am new to Ubuntu and Gnome, tho' not to Linux, and a recording and
> > mixing n00b and ignoramus.
> >
> > All advice in sorting this out gratefully received, and by all means ask
> > me if I have plugged it in!!  Or tell me to RTFM. ;-(  But if you say the
> > second, could you tell me where to find the FM??
>
> Visit this link: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=766683.  This
> is by far the best how-to for getting Ubuntu set up for all kinds of
> multimedia.  Everything from playing MP3's to DVD's is covered in there.

Thanks for your help, all of you.  This was the solution I used.  A minor 
tweak here and there - and I have MP3 capability in Gnome Sound Recorder. \o/ 
(And no doubt everything else "forbidden" as well. ;-) )

:-))

Lisi