rh8 upgrade and no mp3 xmms support

I upgraded my work laptop to rh 8.0 from 7.3 and for some reason, xmms wont play mp3s anymore. Is there a patch i need to download or has it just gone stupid on me?

[Palin]

Red hat decided to drop support for mp3s
go here and you will find what you need
http://xmms.org/

What kinda crap is that? Fear of lawsuit disease? But, thanks for the info.

[pwrhouse]

Maybe they are just trying to support the ogg format.

??? Doubtful but it could happen. ???

[Gaenya]

No they're not >
http://www.redhat.com/advice/speaks_80mm.html

[Schotty]

RedHat has (recall the KDE bullshit a few years back) had a thing about potentially unfree software. I still am unclear how MySQL still makes it in (technically you do need a license for commercial applications), but mp3 has some commercial restrictions that they dont want to deal with. The resoution isnt difficult, but rather irritating. I wish they hadnt, but in the same sense I can't really fault them for them move.

[Kernel_Killer]

There is another package in there, that has the mp3 plugin. WHich one, I don't know. I ahd the same prob, and then installed most of the multimedia packages, and all was good.

[coltrane]

Here ya go

staff.xmms.org/priv/redhat8/