Playing mp3 in Rhythmbox

[Will H. Backman]

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> Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 10:03 AM
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> Subject: Re: Playing mp3 in Rhythmbox
> 
> 
> This is just an observation as to the default installed packages.  Why
> would someone want to have Rhythmbox installed but no ability to play
> anything but .ogg files?  Wouldn't it be simpler to have by default
all
> the major file types playable (i.e. mp3, .ogg, .flac, etc.) for the
> default install?

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