Sun 29 Jan 2006
FC4 does support FLAC out of the box with all the gstreamer based audio players. XMMS is packaged in extras and a quick bug report would most likely get the maintainer to push a new package. We are big supporters of open formats 
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January 30th, 2006 at 9:16 am
No bug report is needed
[y4kk0@X ~]$ yum list \*xmms\*
Loading “installonlyn” plugin
Setting up repositories
extras-dev: ################################################## 2/2
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Installed Packages
xmms.i386 1:1.2.10-19.fc5 installed
xmms-mp3.i386 1.2.10-0.lvn.3.4 installed
Available Packages
logjam-xmms.i386 1:4.5.1-5.fc5 extras-developme
xfce4-xmms-plugin.i386 0.3.1-4.fc5 extras-developme
xmms-acme.i386 0.4.2-4 extras-developme
xmms-alarm.i386 0.3.7-1 extras-developme
xmms-arts.i386 0.7.1-1 extras-developme
xmms-cdread.i386 0.14-6.a extras-developme
xmms-crossfade.i386 0.3.8-4 extras-developme
xmms-devel.i386 1:1.2.10-19.fc5 extras-developme
xmms-flac.i386 1.1.2-25.fc5 extras-developme
xmms-lirc.i386 1.4-6 extras-developme
xmms-modplug.i386 2.05-4.fc5 extras-developme
xmms-sid.i386 0.7.4-6 extras-developme
xmms-skins.i386 1:1.2.10-13 extras-developme
xmms-skins.noarch 1:1.2.10-15 extras-developme
xmms-speex.i386 0.9.1-5 extras-developme
xmms-xosd.i386 2.2.14-4.fc5 extras-developme
[y4kk0@X ~]$
January 30th, 2006 at 10:03 am
I think the issue is that it doesn’t install flac support by default. It should require all open codecs.