Yes, mplayer supports many different codecs, its even can play windows formats. Download page is here: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html I usually install the binary codecs first then build it from source but I see fedora rpms there also. You need to install the binary codecs first then install the program. Mplayer is actually a movie player, it can play all sorts of audio formats: MPEG layer 1, 2, and 3 (MP3) audio AC3/A52 (Dolby Digital) audio (software or SP/DIF) AAC (MPEG-4 audio) WMA (DivX Audio) v1, v2 WMA 9 (WMAv3), Voxware audio, ACELP.net etc (using x86 DLLs) RealAudio: COOK, SIPRO, ATRAC3 (using Real libraries) RealAudio: DNET and older codecs QuickTime: Qclp, Q-Design QDMC/QDM2, MACE 3/6 (using QT libraries), ALAC Ogg Vorbis audio VIVO audio (g723, Vivo Siren) (using x86 DLL) alaw/ulaw, (ms)gsm, pcm, *adpcm and other simple old audio formats All of those plus a bunch of video formats also! See the supported list here http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/info.html -- Doug