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Linux Mint: How to Add MP3 Support to Your Linux Distribution?

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[ Thanks to linuxmint for this link. ]

“You’ve just installed a new Linux distribution on your computer
and it won’t play your MP3 files? All your songs are encoded in
that format and you don’t know what to do? Well, don’t worry. This
is a common problem in Linux and it has a simple solution.

“Most Linux distributions made the choice not to include MP3
support by default, for instance: Ubuntu, SUSE, Fedora, Debian…
etc.

“A minority of distributions do support MP3 though, for
instance: Mandriva, Mepis, PCLinuxOS… etc…”

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