[Gllug] X - .mp3 problem

[Tethys]

Paul Nasrat writes:

>"Due to patent licensing, and conflicts between such patent licenses and
>the licenses of application source code, MPEG-1/2 audio layer 3 (mp3)
>support has been removed from applications in Red Hat Linux such as
>XMMS"

I don't miss the MP3 playback -- all my music in in Ogg Vorbis anyway.
But I do miss smpeg. I'm assuming that was removed for similar reasons?
The release notes just say it's been removed. They don't say why, and
don't suggest a replacement. Any ideas?

Tet

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