Re: Fun with xmms and .mp3 on RH

From: Amadeus (nobody_at_nowhere.org)
Date: 05/02/04


Date: Sun, 02 May 2004 16:48:29 -0400


> Still astonished how someone could remove mp3 support for my favorite
> GUI mp3 player, xmms?

I know, how can we live without it? Nobody liked that, but RH dropped
support for mp3 long ago, for legal issues.

No need to patch and recompile though, others have done that already.
Download xmms-mp3 from here:

http://ayo.freshrpms.net/redhat/9/i386/RPMS.freshrpms/

There's versions for other rh flavors, including fedora.



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