Hello guys. I’ve just installed k3b but after starting it, it welcomes me with the following warning:
MP3 Audio Decoder plugin not found.
K3b could not load or find the MP3 decoder plugin. This means that you will not be able to create Audio CDs from MP3 files. Many Linux distributions do not include MP3 support for legal reasons.
Solution: To enable MP3 support, please install the MAD MP3 decoding library as well as the K3b MAD MP3 decoder plugin (the latter may already be installed but not functional due to the missing libmad). Some distributions allow installation of MP3 support via an online update tool.
I’ve tried looking for the package but I couldn’t find it. How can I fix this?
> I’ve tried looking for the package but I couldn’t find it. How can I
> fix this?
Do you really need it? Unless you want to “create Audio CDs from MP3
files”, just ignore the message. If you need that feature, install k3b
from packman.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
Right, I see the package now, but when I try to install it, it says that I need to downgrade k3b to a previous version than the one installed on my machine. My question is, is it safe to do that (downgrade the k3b)?
That is OK to change the version as it only slight and means nothing, but if you allow vendor change in YaST the whole thing can occur without user intervention.
It is safe. k3b-codecs is only offered by packman repo. So it wants to install the k3b version from packman. After that you will always see following message during “zypper up”:
The following package updates will NOT be installed:
k3b 2.0.2-22.1.2
k3b-lang 2.0.2-22.1.2
But this is ok because the version numbers of k3b are higher in openSUSE-12.2-Oss than in packman. But I believe the version from packman is newer although its version number is lower.