MP3 support

To enable MP3 support, the repository should be added to Yum. Configuration instructions for the rpmfusion repository can be found . Then, the following steps should be taken depending on Amarok version, and engine:

The instructions may differ a little to below, but a bit of playing around will eventually make you happy.

codecs for dummies:

Once rpmfusion is enabled, the easiest way to enable all the freeworld/nonfree codec support, is to:

yum update @sound-and-video

This should suffice for most, but more details follow below.

For Amarok 1.4 (using xine) or Amarok 2 (using phonon-backend-xine):

yum install amarok-extras-freeworld

This package installs extended xine support for Amarok.

For Amarok 1.4 (using the Helix Engine):

Download RealPlayer Gold from

Install RealPlayer using the following command:

 sudo rpm -ivh RealPlayer11GOLD.rpm

The following dependencies may be needed for RealPlayer so you can install them by the following command:

 sudo yum install compat-libstdc++-33

For Amarok 2 (using phonon-backend-gstreamer):

yum install gstreamer-plugins-ugly

For users of MythTV

For users of MythTV, or if you have some other objection to using the livna repository, an alternate using and can be used. Unfortunately, the repos seems to never live happily together, causing dependency issues which can be very difficult to manage. You can configure these repositories by using the following steps (ripped from )

cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
wget 
wget 

In case you don't keep your Fedora installation up to date and this package is no good, you can install the older package/version:

yum install gstreamer-plugins-mp3