Re: Milestone 2 and mp3s

Is this an old message?  11.3 is at M1, and 11.2 has been gold for a long time now.  In any event, amarok 2.2.2 with KDE 4.3 using phonon-backend-xine works fine with mp3's in 11.2, and amarok 2.2.90 with KDE 4.4 using same backend works fine in 11.3 Factory.


> In past versions of openSuSE 11.# I was always able to beat the
> restricted mp3 problem. As a end user that seems normal. I have always
> gotten Amarok to work correctly and use it all the time.  It would just
> work after loading building xine-lib/ui.  Since Milestone 2 has come out
> that fails to fix the problem and causes Amarok to just rapid advance
> through the playlist.  It seems as of Milestone 2 openSuSE has made even
> phonon or gstreamer void of playing mp3s.
> I built a version 2.2.2 of Amarok and it reports the reason it will not
> work is due to "phonon was built without MP3 support".  If Amarok is not
> going to work correctly why is in available?  Save the space on the
> DVD/CD.  My suggestion is to offer DVD/CD that is for an end user that
> has end users applications that work.  I have been using SuSE/openSuSE
> for over 10 years and it is becoming obvious why other distros are
> finding favor. 
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