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Red Hat Announces Fedora Will Support MP3 Playback (fedoraproject.org)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the expired-playback-patents dept.

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..."

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  1. Welcome to the future! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fedora users are gonna party likes its 1999!

    1. Re: Welcome to the future! by KiloByte · · Score: 4, Funny

      it took them 20 years to add mp3 support, how long do you think it takes to fix the init system which was taken in 5 years ago? Hint: do not hold your breath while waiting.

      I don't expect systemd to be fixed, ever, but in 5 years you can expect the CADT team to invent a yet another init scheme, with even more regressions, and force everyone to transition to it.

      --
      The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
    2. Re: Welcome to the future! by JustAnotherOldGuy · · Score: 4, Funny

      I don't expect systemd to be fixed, ever, but in 5 years you can expect the CADT team to invent a yet another init scheme, with even more regressions, and force everyone to transition to it.

      Lets call it dmetsys; it'll use double-encypted log and config files with a proprietary unlock key that costs $75 per bootup.

      All config directives will be in Sumerian, but the values will be written in Sicilian Arabic.

      Documentation must be done solely in Egyptian hieroglyphics.

      Finally, any configuration mistake should trigger an automatic format of all attached hard drives.

      --
      Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
  2. Re: wtf? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Take a wild guess.