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I installed some extra audio applications from Debian, but MP3 playback doesn’t work, giving me strange errors. Why is this?

April 26, 2017applications audio Debian doesn’t extra giving installed mp3 playback

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I installed some extra audio applications from Debian, but MP3 playback doesn’t work, giving me strange errors. Why is this?

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The libmad package in 64 Studio is a dummy package, due to software patents on the MP3 format (as explained above). You should install the libmad package from Etch if you intend to run applications which need this library.