On Wednesday 06 April 2005 10:28 am, Synthetic Cartoonz wrote:
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 07:29, Mark Crean wrote:
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Well, quite a lot of people may well be a little reluctant to pay up for SuSe 9.3 if this early review is to be believed. It says that multimedia functionality has been crippled to the point that if you want to play mp3s and the like, except through realplayer, you will have to install not only recompiled apps like amarok but also recompile kde-multimedia and other deep-level stuff. Sounds a complete nightmare, not least because recompling fundamental things will make updating that much more complicated. Hope it's not true, or that packman comes to the rescue. Otherwise, this could make SuSE very hard for some of us. See
Everyone doesn't need mp3 playback. I don't have any mp3 files anywhere. All my music is in OGG. My iRiver IHP40 plays ogg files just fine. Perhaps reducing mp3 support will encourage more people to look at the free alternatives.
Ok, I'll junk my RCA Lyra (2 of them) and just use my Rio Karma which plays OGG. Thanks for solving my problem. <NOT>