Re: problems with xmms and red hat 8.0

Derek Schaible <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.multimedia.xmms.devel
Organization CSSI, Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 10:29, Jan Wagner wrote:
> On Saturday 05 September 2009 20:11, David Roguin wrote:
> > i installed red hat 8 and when i try to add an mp3 file to my playlist
> > nothing appear in it.
> >
> > this doesn't happened in an older version of linux.
> >
> > i can add an wav file and an ogg. but no mp3.
> >
> > does anyone know why is this?

It's a RedHat thing. They disabled mp3 playing in xmms to avoid
lawsuits. The fix is easy. rpm -e xmms download the latest xmms tar ball
from xmms.org and reinstall.

HTH,
-- 
Derek Schaible <[email protected]>
CSSI, Inc.
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