How do I play mp3 files using Linux?
—–BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE—– Hash: SHA1 tomzam@xxxxxxxxx wrote: I’m trying to play some mp3 files on my Linux box. I’m running Fedora Core 4. First thing I tried, when I found out my Helix player couldn’t play MP3’s (well it can’t with my limited knowledge [as a Linux newbie] on how to change things), was to try to install RealPlayer. However, when I ran the real player installer I got the following message: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory. I’ve looked around elsewhere and found out there are things called codex’s. Which, at this point, is out of my experience range. Do codex’s allow player to play files that are in different formats? If yes, where do you get them and how are they installed? But that’s not my main question. The main one is: What do I have to do to be able to play mp3’s on my Linux box? ITYM “Codec” (plural: codecs). The term “codec” comes from the words “COder and DECoder”. A codec is
