Nautilus and mp3 info

Sasha Tsykin stsykin at gmail.com
Mon Feb 20 08:59:20 UTC 2006


Ed Fletcher wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I'm using Breezy and I've noticed that Nautilus no longer gives me any
> info on mp3 files.  If I right click on the file and select Properties,
> then select the Audio/Video tab, there is no information on the file.
> Warty used to give me all the data like bitrate, etc.
>
> Also, Rhythymbox doesn't recognize any mp3 as an audio stream but they
> all play fine in mplayer.
>
> I beleive that I have all the codecs installed, but I may be wrong.  I
> searched through Synaptic for anything that looks promising and
> installed them.  But still no joy with Nautilus and Rhythmbox.
>
> Anyone able to point me in the right direction?
>
> Ed
>   
Hey,

Go into Synaptic and install every plugin for gstreamer. Then type 
gst-0.8-register. It should work now. Also, install the win32codecs from 
the mplayer page.

Sasha




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