Re: musicpd

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan fenrus demon nl>]

On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 17:15 +0200, Jonathan Dieter wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 19:10 -0800, Peter Gordon wrote:
> > Exactly the case, as I understand it. It needs libmad (MP3-decoding
> > library) an includes an internal copy of it in the main source tarball.
> 
> I've just had a look at the source (from subversion 4952 from ~ October
> 29, 2006) and there doesn't seem to be any internal copy of libmad in
> it.  It does link to it, though it should be easy to pass the
> "--disable-mp3" flag at compile time.
> 
> It seems there are really three choices here, and it's probably up to
> the maintainer which he wants to do:
> 1. Move mpd to extras, disabling the mp3 input plugin and have
> mpd-nonfree in the 'other' repository which provides the mp3 input
> plugin (a la audacity and audacity-nonfree)
> 2. Move mpd to extras and don't provide mp3 input plugin at all
> 3. Leave mpd in livna with mp3 input plugin

4. Patch mpd so that it doesn't use a full mp3 decoder just to get to ID
tags..