[ale] RH9 & mp3

[James P. Kinney III]

On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 23:50, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
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> On Monday 19 May 2003 11:37 pm, miguel wrote:
> > one of the many things i like about my rh7.2 workstation is that i can 
> > write code and listen to
> > music online from www.winamp.com. (or mp3s).But, with RH9 now i cannot 
> > do that and/or
> > having problems with xmms.
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> I _believe_ that RH 9.0 may have dropped all support for the mp3
> file format because of lingering questions about copyright. Ogg
> seems to provide better compression and better fidelity.
> 
> YMMV

There is a patch to xmms that restores mp3 playback for RedHat 8/9
users. It is on the main (or a link anyway) xmms site.

While I understand and support their pulling it from the distribution,
is really is a pain. At least, once it's found, easy to fix.

Here's the link you need:

http://havardk.xmms.org/dist/xmms-1.2.7-rh8-rh9-rpm/
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