On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 14:20 +0300, Ioannis Vranos wrote: > OS: CentOS 5.0 x86. > > > I tried to use Noatun to play back mp3s, but it does not work. Is it normal? Very normal ... Red Hat is a US based company and the Source RPMs that they provide do not play MP3's This is because it is currently a patent violation in the USA to distribute an MP3 player without licensing it through at least 2 companies. See this link for background: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070222-8910.html Being that I do not have a spare $1.52 billion dollars lying around to be able to distribute MP3 playing technology either ... you'll have to figure out how to enable MP3's in CentOS 5 via google :P Before anyone starts complaining and whining about the USA and it's patent laws, etc., etc. ... I do not like software patents, I think they suck too ... everyone at CentOS thinks they suck ... HOWEVER, I still don't have $1.52 dollars, so we will continue not shipping an MP3 player in CentOS. Thanks, Johnny Hughes
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