replacing XMMS

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 14:27:06 -0400, Nathan Fredrickson wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 13:48, Colin Walters wrote:
> > What I'm curious of is comments by people who still use XMMS, and why. 
> > What are the most important things to you that need to be fixed in
> > Rhythmbox?
> 
> I just took my first look at Rhythmbox to see if it could stream an MP3
> over HTTP and most importantly seek within the stream.  Unfortunately I
> just get an error I don't understand: "Failed to create mad element;
> check your installation".

This is a gstreamer plug-in error message which refers to the "MAD" mp3
codec software, which is not included in Fedora Core. For Fedora Core 1,
a patched rhythmbox and a gstreamer-plugins-mp3 package are provided
at http://rpm.livna.org