Replacement for XMMS?

[Brian Hartman]

I did this, and, although xmms-mp3 installed, it still gave me the same
message and refused to play any MP3s.


On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 22:52, Lee-Win Tai wrote:
> 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.
> 
> --- cut below ---
> 
> [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
> 
> --- cut above ---
> 
> 
> 
> 2.  If you are using up2date, add these lines to
> /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources.  You typically must be root to do this.
> 
> --- cut below ---
> 
> 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
> 
> --- cut above ---
> 
> 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/
> 
>