From Amarok Wiki
To enable MP3 support, the livna repository should be added to Yum.
Configuration instructions for the livna repository can be found here. 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.
- For Amarok 1.4 (using xine) from Fedora Core 4 to Fedora 9:
yum install amarok-extras-nonfree
- This package installs xine support for Amarok, and presumably also installs the unofficial xine-lib as a dependency.
- For people using the Helix Engine:
- Download RealPlayer Gold from realplayer
- 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
- Mp3 support using gstreamer plugins
- Using Fedora Core 5 to Fedora 9:
yum install gstreamer-plugins-ugly
- Using older versions of Fedora:
yum install gstreamer-plugins-extra-audio
- For users of MythTV
For users of MythTV, or if you have some other objection to using the livna repository, an alternate using atrpms and freshrpms 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 Jarod's MythTV HOWTO)
cd /etc/yum.repos.d/ wget http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/atrpms.repo wget http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/freshrpms.repo
- 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
More info can be found at FedoraFAQ, although this does not mention xine, which is the default engine for Amarok 1.4.