Dumb newbie like question on k3b

[Collins Richey]

On 6/19/06, Ronnie Gauthier <ronnieg at chartermi.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 18:05:27 -0400
> Harry Giles <hg57 at sc.rr.com> wrote:
>
> > I just did a new install, and when I try to burn some mp3's to a audio CD, I
> > get :
> > Unable to handle the following files due to an unsupported
> > format: /home/harry/ nameofsong.mp3
> >
> > What am I missing?
> >
>
> Could be wrong here(i do that often) but isnt mp3 proprietary?
> You may have to download a plugin of some type of codec.
>

Almost no distro distributes mp3 support out of the box because of
legal issues, but every distro that I've dealt with provides
instructions and download sites for getting mp3 (and other proprietary
stuff) support.

mplayer (and probably totem as well) and any mp3 product is basically
crippled until you add the support (plugins, codecs) to handle the
proprietary formats.

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