cannot play mp3's

[bakersfield90]

I just installed Ubuntu 8.04. This is my first time on Linux and I have no idea what I am doing.

I imported all of my mp3 files onto my computer and imported them into Rhythmbox. But when I try to play any file with sound at all, I hear nothing.

I know that my sound card is working, because I can hear music/videos online perfectly.

I have tried VLC, Ryhthmbox, and Movie Player.

Help. Thanks.

[FredB]

I just installed Ubuntu 8.04. This is my first time on Linux and I have no idea what I am doing.

I imported all of my mp3 files onto my computer and imported them into Rhythmbox. But when I try to play any file with sound at all, I hear nothing.

I know that my sound card is working, because I can hear music/videos online perfectly.

I have tried VLC, Ryhthmbox, and Movie Player.

Help. Thanks.

Juste install ubuntu-restricted-extras package.

Open a terminal and enter :

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

And it will be ok.

[amingv]

Check this here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats

[lswest]

this might be useful to do, and it might fix your problem:

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

it's a metapackage full of codecs, fonts, flash, etc. Seems like the codecs for mp3 playback aren't installed yet.

*edit* too slow XD

[bakersfield90]

Juste install ubuntu-restricted-extras package.

Open a terminal and enter :

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

And it will be ok.

I have already installed that. Like I said, I CAN hear music/videos online, just not my own mp3/movie files.

[blink0072005]

I have the exact same problem...in fact, I had just created a thread for this 4 minutes before this one! I wonder if this is a widespread Heron problem (I upgrade from a working Gutsy).

[FredB]

I have already installed that. Like I said, I CAN hear music/videos online, just not my own mp3/movie files.

Strange.

What about your sound settings in volume manager ?

Just guessing to find the answer, of course. Are you mp3 with drm ? Could be an answer here. And what about your movies ? Are they drm free ?

[blink0072005]

Though I can't speak for Baker, my sound settings in preferences were currently on Autodetect. However, when I tried to "test" them, I couldn't hear any sound. As I went down the list, only two options would make the beeping test sound: Intel ICH6 and ALSA. Unfortunately, even when I set my sound to them, my music players (Amarok and mPlayer) would freeze while trying to play any sound file. In addition, not only can my computer not play DRM-free mp3s, but it can't even play the .ogg in the "Example" folder in Home!

[omicrondelta]

I think they should call version 8.04 -> Hardy Vista...

[jocko]

Though I can't speak for Baker, my sound settings in preferences were currently on Autodetect. However, when I tried to "test" them, I couldn't hear any sound. As I went down the list, only two options would make the beeping test sound: Intel ICH6 and ALSA. Unfortunately, even when I set my sound to them, my music players (Amarok and mPlayer) would freeze while trying to play any sound file. In addition, not only can my computer not play DRM-free mp3s, but it can't even play the .ogg in the "Example" folder in Home!

Do you mean you set the sound in gstreamer-properties and gnome-sound-preferences?
Mplayer have it's own settings. In gmplayer (gui version) you set it under preferences --> audio, and in mplayer (no gui), you can add the option "ao=alsa" in your ~/.mplayer/config.
My guess is that you have the same problem I had, where gnome and gstreamer were set to use pulseaudio, pulseaudio tried to acces alsa but couldn't due to a problem in alsa, causing my sound applications to freeze or crash.
Another symptom of my problem was that I could not run alsamixer (type "alsamixer" in a terminal).