Re: Music queue bugs

This in no way answers your question nor am I certain that this response applies in this situation, but... you do realize there are copyright issues involved with using MP3 technology; these copyright issues are the reason why XMMS no longer supports MP3 (as of at least version 1.2.x). An open source solution is to switch to Ogg Vorbis format, though the option of switching formats has issues all its own.

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OT: Re^2: Music queue bugs by Tanktalus (Canon) on May 26, 2005 at 23:18 UTC
This is getting way off-topic here, but I just want to correct a slight misstatement there: XMMS supports MP3 just fine. It's RedHat that doesn't: http://www.redhat.com/advice/speaks_80mm.html. My brand new gentoo installation of xmms plays mp3's just fine ;-) Even my RHEL3AS machine plays mp3's once I downloaded the source and recompiled it.	[reply]
Re: OT: Re^2: Music queue bugs by dabreegster (Beadle) on May 27, 2005 at 02:21 UTC
Personally, I don't feel that using mp3s is morally wrong or wrong in a free software sense. I use mpg321, which is Free. Most of my songs are either ripped off CDs that I legally purchased or remixes of songs from videogames. (ocremix.org and vgmix.com) But regardless, ogg isn't commonplace yet and mp3s seem to have better quality, though I don't know much about the ogg format. In any case, I will still continue to work on my mp3 player. I'm still welcome to suggestions about this code, but I've decided to go a bit deeper. See my other node in Seekers of Perl Wisdom for further information.	[reply]