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16 <h1>Playing MP3s with GSSMP
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18 <p>The GSSMP developers recommend storing your music in
19 <a href=
"http://www.vorbis.com/">Ogg Vorbis
</a> format, rather than MP3.
20 For a good explanation of why, check out this article:
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22 especially the section entitled
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24 <p>Anyway, if you do want to be able to play back mp3 files, and you're
25 happy to install something that is not
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28 <a href=
"http://www.fluendo.com/resources/fluendo_mp3.php">Fluendo
</a>) you
29 can install the Fluendo mp3 gstreamer plugin. On Ubuntu enable the universe
30 repository and type:
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32 <p><tt>sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3
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34 <p>Other distros should check their package repository, or read more at
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