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How to install multimedia codecs in Fedora 24 (to play MP3s)

By On 9 November 2016 · Leave a Comment

Best article on the net on the topic of installing codecs in Fedora (includes rpmfusion repo setup)! 🙂

How to install multimedia codecs on Fedora 22/23

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Linux CD/DVD Burning sofvtware

By On 10 October 2013 · Leave a Comment

An excellent page describing good linux software for burning CDs/DVDs, creating images, etc:
http://www.techdrivein.com/2011/03/9-good-cd-and-dvd-burning-tools-for.html

Xfburn – XFCE for Linux
K3B – KDE Burning Tool
GnomeBaker – GNOME Burning Tool
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A nice linux mp3 editing tool?

By On 21 December 2012 · 2 Comments

Ahem… well… there ain’t one. Sorryh folks. Well, at least I could not find any. Setting up audacity with a ton of plugins to make it export WAV files which you can then edit and then re-encode with lame back into MP3 is not my idea of an easy-to-use editing tool…

So… how can we […]

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Can’t play MP3s in Fedora 9…

By On 4 April 2011 · 2 Comments

If you’ve installed Fedora Core 9 you won’t be able to play your MP3 audio files out of the box. I suppose some other Fedora versions also have this “feature”. I won’t go here into a lengthy explanation as to why exactly FC9 does not play mp3 – Fedora actually handles that quite good […]

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No sound on my Linux box and alsamixer gives error in function snd_ctl_open failed

By On 1 April 2011 · 2 Comments

On my newly installed Fedora box (I said “newly” but this may be a bit misleading as I installed FC9, which is an old distribution but I have to use it for compatibility reasons with other software…) I had the following problem:

I had no sound (e.g. YouTube plays a clip and there is no […]

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