RipperX, MP3, Gstreamer plugins...

**hornetster** · November 10th, 2013

Am a little confused here. Have been merrily playing my library of MP3/FLAC/WMA files in Amarok in a fairly freshly installed 13.10 x64 without a problem. Went out and got a new CD, and decided to install RipperX, as I have used it many times before, ripped the CD at 192KB (variable), and when trying to play (in pretty well any app, I believe) I get a message: "Install extra Multimedia plugins? Amarok requires to install plugins...... Multiple Gstreamer extra plugins (i386..) - as per attachment.
Try to install and get Package dependency probs...
Can anybody help me clear this up?

**bapoumba** · November 10th, 2013

Hello,

a lot of the plugins are in the multiverse or universe repositories. Do you have them enabled ?
You probably need to install ubuntu-restricted-extras in multiverse.

**hornetster** · November 11th, 2013

Yep, restricted-extras installed (always first thing I do), multiverse and universe enabled...

**speartip** · November 11th, 2013

Not sure what the answer is, but as an experiment, try ripping the same CD using another ripper, Asunder for eg, & see if Amarok asks for the same plugins.
Also try playing the same songs in a Gnome native player like Rhythmbox & see what happens.

edit. You could also drop one of the tracks in say Dropbox, & post the link here, to see if others have the same problem with the same track.

**hornetster** · November 11th, 2013

Tried playing in Rhythmbox & Mplayer, and wouldn't play - similar prob.
Ended up ripping using RipperX in opensuse, with identical settings - worked fine.
Sorry, have deleted files - if I get the chance will try ripping again and post a copy...
Thanks.