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chocolatl56

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Registered: 2009-11-01

Posts: 7

K3b Audio CD Burning Difficulties

I have been googling a while for solutions (and searching the wiki and forums, of course), but I haven't found anything...  I have recently installed k3b, and everything works fine, except for burning audio cd's with mp3s on them.  I have already installed libmad, but everytime I start k3b I get this message:

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 (e.g. SuSE's YOU).

I am using libmad0.15.1b-4 and k3b1.68.0alpha3-2 (the newest versions in the repos).  I have searched for the "Mad Decoder Plugin" mentioned, but I can only find it in .rpm form.  Do I even need the plugin on arch?   Thank you for taking the time to help a confused newbie

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bambambule

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Registered: 2008-12-02

Posts: 1

Re: K3b Audio CD Burning Difficulties

hi

same problem here ...

Name: k3b
Version: 1.69.0alpha4-1

Name                 : libmad
Version              : 0.15.1b-4

i use kdemod...

chocolatl56

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Registered: 2009-11-01

Posts: 7

Re: K3b Audio CD Burning Difficulties

I am also using kdemod (kde 4.3 version)...

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chocolatl56

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Registered: 2009-11-01

Posts: 7

Re: K3b Audio CD Burning Difficulties

w000000000t!  I solved my own problem!   For any that are having the same problems:
Go to the kdemod website and add their "playground" repo.  Then install the package "kdemod-playground-k3b-svn"  This version of k3b will work with MAD, and contains all the necessary plugins.

*NOTE*  Kdemod's playground repo contains unstable software that MAY BREAK THINGS.  I am using the k3b package mentioned above, and it works fine on my system (you may get different results).

-chocolatl

Last edited by chocolatl56 (2009-12-09 20:55:03)

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