Audio player for Fedora 12

[ferniferousfern]

I recently installed an audio player, XMMS, onto my laptop with Fedora 12 OS, since no other media players would work. So far, it will play one song, which is more than the other ones would do. It's the only song that's in .wav format, although idk why it's in that format nor do I remember putting it in that format. The other media players(Audacious, Audacious2, Banshee Media Player, BMPx, Decibel Music Player, Exaile Music Player, Kaffeine, Muine Music Player, Whaaw! Music Player, Rhythmbox Music Player)all just wouldn't play. Some said something about not having the right codecs or plugins, others just went through the songs in a millisecond of no sound. I tried to find the right codec plugin thingies(I'm not a geek, bear with me) but I couldn't find them. If someone could explain what I need to do in a really simple way, it would be much appreciated.

P.S. It took me forever to figure out how to get Fedora 12 on here, so please don't tell me I need to upgrade to Fedora 15 or 16 or whichever's the newest.

P.P.S. Example of one of the error messages, from Whaaw! Media Player:
" Your GStreamer installation is missing a plug-in.

gstdecodebin2.c(2449): gst_decode_bin_expose (): /GstPlayBin2layer/GstURIDecodeBin:uridecodebin0/GstDecodeBin2:decodebin20:
no suitable plugins found "

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Please and thank you.

[oz]

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[jayd512]

Hi there!

First, I have to say it... You will eventually want to upgrade to a newer version of Fedora. both 12 and 13 have reached EOL, so will not receive any new security patches/updates.
That being said, first have you enabled the RPMFusion software repo? It has alot of the codecs that you might be missing. See this page for the correct steps.

Then, the little extras for xmms: Personal Fedora 12 Installation Guide

[ferniferousfern]

warning: /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.43higQ: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 signature: NOKEY, key ID a3780952
error: Failed dependencies:
system-release >= 13 is needed by rpmfusion-free-release-13-4.noarch

[jayd512]

Looks like they've taken Fedora 12 software off of the reference list.
You'll be able to get the software from these pages:
RepoView: RPM Fusion (Fedora - free - released) 12 (i386)
RepoView: RPM Fusion (Fedora - nonfree - released) 12 (i386)

[ferniferousfern]

I downloaded the rpm thingy, nothing changed.

[jayd512]

After downloading both of them, you'll need to install using the rpm command. You can probably try it like so:

rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/releases/12/Everything/i386/os/rpmfusion-free-release-12-1.noarch.rpm
rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/releases/12/Everything/i386/os/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-12-1.noarch.rpm

[ferniferousfern]

It told me that it opened with package installer, but I tried the "rpm -ivh" thing and got this error message: curl: (6) Couldn't resolve host 'download1.rpmfusion.org'

[jayd512]

Did you use the exact command? Just copy/paste it into a terminal.
You need to be root to do so.

[ferniferousfern]

Did you use the exact command? Just copy/paste it into a terminal.
You need to be root to do so.

Yes, I was root user, and yes, I copy and pasted the command.