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Friday, 24 April 2009

How to activate MP3 in Ubuntu 9.04

Playing MP3s doesn't work by default in the new Ubuntu (Jaunty Jackalope).

Here's what I did to get it working.
  • Start up Synaptic (System>Administration>Synaptic)
  • Click on Settings>Repositories
  • Select all repositories that are downloadable over the internet
  • Click on Close
  • Click on Reload
  • When it is done reloading, close Synaptic
  • Click on any MP3 file; Movie player should start up.
  • It will ask if you want to add the necessary codecs. Answer yes, and let it do it.
The end.

3 Comments:

Blogger Dan said...

This solution was perfect. Thank you!

25 April 2009 06:11  
Blogger Gregg said...

Worked for me. Thank you.

1 August 2009 16:36  
Blogger dee-nesia said...

Thank you so much. It also works for me.

27 August 2009 11:18  

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