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November 13, 2016 08:00 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/sxQx_TjSJcg/red-hat-announces-fedora-will-support-mp3-playback
Red Hat Announces Fedora Will Support MP3 Playback
Long-time Slashdot reader jrincayc shares news from Red Hat's Fedora Engineering Manager, Tom Callaway. On the Fedora-legal mailing list, Callaway announced:Red Hat has determined that it is now acceptable for Fedora to include MP3 decoding functionality (not specific to any implementation, or binding by any unseen agreement). Encoding functionality is not permitted at this time. And the same day Christian Schaller announced on the Gnome blog that mp3 playback would be supported in Fedora Workstation 25.You should be able to download the mp3 plugin on Day 1 through GNOME Software or through the missing codec installer in various GStreamer applications. For Fedora Workstation 26 I would not be surprised if we decide to ship it on the install media. He added, "I know this has been a big wishlist item for a long time for a lot of people..."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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