Rene_Thomas
New Member
Hello good people, bots and borgs;
I am using Linux Lite and my level of computer literacy is slightly less than that of the average Windows user.
I have never burned a CD using the Lite distro, which contains a CD Burner package called Xfburn (v0.5.4) as standard.
When trying to use it to burn some mp3 files onto a CD-R disk, as soon as I try to add the files to the list I get an error box popping up with the message:
/media/rene/SAMSUNG/music/Jah Wobble - whole discocraphy/2009 - Chinese Dub (256)/01 SPACE.mp3
is not an audio file:
MPEG-1 Layer 3 (MP3) decoder is missing.
You do not have a decoder installed to handle this file.
Probably you need to look at the gst-plugins-* packages
for the necessary plugins.
I was surprised that the burning program can't handle these mp3 files, as it is such a common file format. An in-program button marked gstreamer tells me that:
The gstreamer transcoder uses the gstreamer
library for creating audio compositions.
Essentially all audio files should be supported
given that the correct plugins are installed.
If an audio file is not recognized, make sure
that you have the 'good','bad', and 'ugly'
gstreamer plugin packages installed.
I'm not adept at installing extra packages; when searching the 'net for info about Xfburn, I found a README page that suggests I install "gstreamer", "gstreamer pbutils" and "gstreamer plugins".
I have gone into the Synaptic Package Manager application, which I am sort of scared of using in case I download the wrong thing; I put a search for "gstreamer" into it and it brought up loads of different packages.
Any ideas what I should do?
PS. Please be patient with me - I don't get much time to use my computer, so it might be a day or two before I can make another attempt at burning this CD.
I am using Linux Lite and my level of computer literacy is slightly less than that of the average Windows user.
I have never burned a CD using the Lite distro, which contains a CD Burner package called Xfburn (v0.5.4) as standard.
When trying to use it to burn some mp3 files onto a CD-R disk, as soon as I try to add the files to the list I get an error box popping up with the message:
/media/rene/SAMSUNG/music/Jah Wobble - whole discocraphy/2009 - Chinese Dub (256)/01 SPACE.mp3
is not an audio file:
MPEG-1 Layer 3 (MP3) decoder is missing.
You do not have a decoder installed to handle this file.
Probably you need to look at the gst-plugins-* packages
for the necessary plugins.
I was surprised that the burning program can't handle these mp3 files, as it is such a common file format. An in-program button marked gstreamer tells me that:
The gstreamer transcoder uses the gstreamer
library for creating audio compositions.
Essentially all audio files should be supported
given that the correct plugins are installed.
If an audio file is not recognized, make sure
that you have the 'good','bad', and 'ugly'
gstreamer plugin packages installed.
I'm not adept at installing extra packages; when searching the 'net for info about Xfburn, I found a README page that suggests I install "gstreamer", "gstreamer pbutils" and "gstreamer plugins".
I have gone into the Synaptic Package Manager application, which I am sort of scared of using in case I download the wrong thing; I put a search for "gstreamer" into it and it brought up loads of different packages.
Any ideas what I should do?
PS. Please be patient with me - I don't get much time to use my computer, so it might be a day or two before I can make another attempt at burning this CD.