[ale] RH9 & mp3

[miguel]

thanks James......i'll give the patch a try...

-mig

On Tue, 2003-05-20 at 00:10, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> 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.
> > 
> > 
> > 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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