removed mp3 support in media players in fedora core 1

Rick Stevens rstevens at vitalstream.com
Mon Dec 8 21:48:48 UTC 2003


Trevor Smith wrote:
> On Friday 05 December 2003 1:02 am, Scott Burns wrote:
> 
>>Check you have a 3 or 4 core wire running from the CDROM to your sound
>>card.  This is in addition to the 4 wire power and 40/80 wire IDE
>>connector.
> 
> 
> Oh my, I don't know whether to laugh or be embarrassed! You know, for years I 
> didn't pay much attention to this strange defect (my computer would play MP3s 
> from CDs but not play CD audio from them) but I remember that when it first 
> occurred I imagined it was a result of some software I had installed. I now 
> realize that I must have been jiggering with some hardware one day and 
> disconnected the sound card -- RIGHT! It was when I fried my old Turtle Beach 
> sound card and bought a new one, I never hooked up the CDROM cable to it. And 
> I assumed it was some sort of driver issue and never bothered to investigate!
> 
> Ug, I can't believe I never bothered to look. :-)

There is a very technical term for this situation:


	DOH!

;-)
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