DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: XMMS Improvements

DSL would be just about perfect if WMA support was automatically supported in XMMS. I don't know what licensing issues are involved. Both MP3 and WMA plugins are available for XMMS for other Linux distros - and oddly MP3 is built into the XMMS that comes with DSL, even though other distros claim that is illegal.

Many of us trying to leave the Microsoft environment, (well me anyway) have large numbers of wma files that we want to take with us.

It seems like this would be a relatively easy plugin to port to DSL, since it already exists as a .deb package for some other Debian-based distro. I have had some success using a package from rarewares: WMA support works, but the install is not clean.

I made a DSL extension for WMA in XMMS a while ago but never submitted it as I wasn't sure about the legalities (stupid software patents). If the DSL developers are OK about hosting it in their repositary I'll happily submit it.

Man I hate WMA, mpg or ogg for me (and only because of mp3's extremely wide use). WMA has all this stupid crap built into it to stop piracy dosent it? - what advantage does it have over open source stuff?, I can only presume you have a stack of wma's or something...
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while I wouldn't recommend having a wma plug-in available in the base distro, a wma extension would be great to help people leave the winblows environment.
a LOTof people have wma music stored in their PCs

Quote (chickenman @ Nov. 27 2005,21:49)

hey, genius, mp3 is MPEG-Layer 3.

I am a Windows user, and linux seems scary, especially this distro. and will probably stay that way for a few more years...

Anything along the lines of better media management in this distro is worth it, I'm a media freak, which is why Windows and MacOS have won me over...pity...

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