MP3 support in KDE

[Simon Perreault]

On January 7, 2004 15:27, Darrell Esau wrote:
> I'd like to get MP3 support working in KDE (I believe this was stripped
> from kdelibs or perhaps kdemultimedia, along with ID3 tag reading for
> metadata).
> Is there any easier way to get this done other than recompiling all of KDE?

Nope. And it's not as easy as setting a flag in the spec file: the source 
tarball itself has been modified.

BTW: why is this done? In the freetype RPM, for example, the patented bytecode 
interpreter can be enabled by setting a flag in the spec file. Why not do the 
same thing for MP3 support?

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