Who would have thought that it would be this difficult to play mp3s. I have spent the last two evenings trying to get Ubuntu to play an mp3. All the while I have been encoding my existing CDs into .ogg files. (I currently have about 60 CDs encoded and counting...)
I thought that I came across a great product to make this problem go away. There is a product called EasyUbuntu that supplies most of the ancillary files that Ubuntu did not supply. Besides mp3 encoders, it has DVD encoders, Java, Rar, Flash, and other similar plug-ins.
While I had no troubles installing the product, I can't for the life of me figure out how to get the existing applications to see the new plug-in. Sadly, during this time of the month I am not able to spend a lot of time on it. It was this reason that I missed yesterday's entry.
I was hoping to have the problem solved tonight, but I have to go do other things and I still am not there.