On Friday 07 October 2005 23:15, jfweber@bellsouth.net wrote:
On October Saturday 08 2005 1:02 am, Dana J. Laude wrote:
On Friday 07 October 2005 21:51, Dana J. Laude wrote:
Just a FYI here, but I just upgraded my system to 10.0 GR from 9.3 and all seems excellent! (much smoother than the 9.1 to 9.3 update)
MP3 files work, my dual-head setup just worked, and the thing just is faster. Way cool! ;)
I take back the MP3 support. WMA's fine. Ugh!! What IS exactly the big deal of supporting .mp3 files anyway? Damn, I've been using SUSE since like version 5.1, so I can't figure out the hoops and jumps involving .mp3 support, except for Novell being scared of the RIAA. (hey, RIAA... you suck btw!!) Disappointed.
Dana
MP3 is a patented process. and teh Patent holder lives in Germany.. where our beloved distro is born and raised. Something about teh risks of having that on the product media , vs what a user may choose to download from an internet location means that Suse et al prefer not to jump thru that or other software hoops.
Now, How do you get all those lovely soundfiles to play on your box.. assuming your sound card was correctly detected and configured.. you do and Online Update from yast.. down near the bottom of the list are 4 count em 4 items having to do w/ audio files. you check off each one of the four, and your computer downloads and installs them to the correct locations.
When your online update is finished you may choose your favorite media player ( I like xmms, but there certainly are others ) call up a favorite mp3 file and you should have sound...
There is nothing to figure out. Do an online update and choose everything that mentions multimedia and YAST does the rest.
Actually, that worked under 9.3, but I have no option under 10.0 right now. Anyone have a install source that has the .mp3 support? Dana