Kurt Granroth wrote:
> Josef Lowder wrote:
>> .
>> Which mp3 player is best to use? 
>>
>> On my system, I see all these: KsCD, Amarok, Aumix, Grip, KAudioCreator, KMix,
>> RoseGarden, and Sound Recorder ... but no xmms. 
>>
>> None of those listed seem to be mp3 players. 
> 
> Amarok is most certainly an mp3 player... and much more.  It's quite
> possibly the most full feature music player on any OS.  I tend to use
> iTunes, personally, due to all of my AAC files but I would vastly prefer
> to run Amarok if I could.
> 
> I'm not sure what distribution you are running, but there is a better
> than average chance that if you fired up Amarok right now, it wouldn't
> play your mp3s.  Why?  Because mp3 contains patented algorithms and
> decoding files (i.e., "playing them") requires paying licensing fees.
> Most of the major distributions (including Fedora, SUSE, Ubuntu, etc)
> don't ship any mp3 support as a result and you have to add it yourself
> later.

A follow-up to my own post: If you run Ubuntu, Fedora, or SUSE, then
check out this page for details on enabling mp3 support in Amarok.

http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/MP3
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