OT: Re^2: Music queue bugs

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.

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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]

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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.

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