The MP3 plug in not found even on internet unable to play MP3 songs its too boring without songs

[Abhijit]

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

The MP3 plug in not found even on internet unable to play MP3 songs its too boring without songs
it gives error that suitable plugins not found this is my problem on compaq cq40 laptop
it has Ubuntu 9.10 installed
I have also tried to install plugins from terminal but it doesn't works too.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Dec 6 09:09:41 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/rhythmbox
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: rhythmbox 0.12.5-0ubuntu4
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: rhythmbox
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

[Harry (harry33)]

Abhijit,
Have you tried to install the following metapackage?
Ubuntu-restricted-extras.
It will install the package "gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse", which gives the mp3 support.

You can also check this with the Configuration Editor (gconf-editor).
Go to system/gstreamer/0.10/audio/profiles/mp3
See that the "active" box is checked.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#When%20not%20to%20file%20a%20bug.