<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 8:27 AM, William M. Quarles <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:walrus@bellsouth.net">walrus@bellsouth.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">Timo Sivula wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> I would like to use Rhythmbox for mp3 playback and streaming.<br>
> Unfortunately it skips and crackles randomly during playback making it<br>
> impossible to use. I tried to google this for a solution, but found only<br>
> other people complaining about the same issue.<br>
><br>
> This bug makes Rhythmbox unusable. Has anyone solved this?<br>
<br>
</div>I can't even play an audio CD on Rhythmbox without it locking up or<br>
crashing, so you're doing better than I am right now.<br>
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<br>I am running Rythmbox on a freash install of fc10 and it sounds great playing WAV, OGG and FLAC files I have. I just tested out a CD and there are no cracks or skips. I do have some mp3s that Rythmbox tried to import and told me I needed an mp3 decoder for mp3. I am pretty sure you'll have to use lame and trying to troubleshoot what is most likely the lame that is installed on your computer now might be the place to start. I opened up Audacity because it used to use lame to use mp3s, but with the Planet CCRMA Audacity wasn't compiled to use mp3s. Not sure if after you have lame install that it will find it. Some version before used to let you point to the lame install and it worked fine. I recommend you go to Lame's own site and see what you get there.<br>
<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3</a><br><a href="http://lame.sourceforge.net/using.php">http://lame.sourceforge.net/using.php</a><br><br>I try as hard as possible to stay away from mp3. No iPod and iTunes for me. Mp3s pale to other codecs IMHO. <br>
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