Replacement for XMMS?

[Lee-Win Tai]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 10:17:59PM -0500, Brian Hartman wrote:
> 
> Admittedly, I didn't look at the package list, but when I tried to run
> the command, I received the message:
> 
> "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 this application by Red Hat, Inc.  We
> apologize for this inconvenience."

How to play MP3s under FC1 seems to occur frequently.

Here's how you do it:

1.  If you are using yum, add these lines to /etc/yum.conf.  You
typically must be root to do this.

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[livna-stable]
name=Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (stable)
baseurl= http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/yum/stable
gpgcheck=1

[livna-unstable]
name=Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (unstable)
baseurl=http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/yum/unstable
gpgcheck=1

[livna-testing]
name=Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages (testing)
baseurl=http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/yum/testing
gpgcheck=1

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2.  If you are using up2date, add these lines to
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources.  You typically must be root to do this.

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yum livna-stable-fc1 http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/1/i386/yum/stable
yum livna-testing-fc1 http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/1/i386/yum/testing
yum livna-unstable-fc1 http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/1/i386/yum/unstable

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3.  If you did #1, become root (su -), and type yum install xmms-mp3.

4.  If you did #2, become root (su -), and type up2date -u xmms-mp3.

5.  Enjoy your MP3s.


You can read more about the livna.org repository at
http://rpm.livna.org/