Dumb newbie like question on k3b

[Ronnie Gauthier]

On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 20:14:08 -0600
"Collins Richey" <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 

I googled "linux mp3 support" and got a pagefull of good sites.

I had to do it for my SuSe 9.2, but have forgotten exactly 
what I did but it was fairly easy.

Ronnie