Mixxx

Bundle LAME mp3 plugin required for Recording and Streaming

Bug #1294128 reported by jus on 2014-03-18

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Mixxx	Fix Released	Wishlist	RJ Skerry-Ryan	Mixxx 2.3.0

Bug Description

"How to obtain and install the mp3 codec, because Recording and Streaming mp3 wont work?"
This is one of the most common support request.

We would do many users and ourselves a favor, if we finally make the whole process user friendly. The current way of downloading from unreliable 3rd-party sites, renaming files and copying to the correct location is error prone, and should be a thing of the past.

I understand that we can not distribute lame binaries, be we can sideload, like in other apps.

Proposal:
If user tries to activate mp3 streaming/recording, do not only display a popup with links too wiki/manual, but allow to download and install the correct codec to the expected location by the click of a single button.

Tags:

RJ Skerry-Ryan (rryan) on 2014-03-29

Changed in mixxx:
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist
status:	New → Confirmed

Owen Williams (ywwg) on 2014-12-31

Changed in mixxx:
milestone:	none → 2.1
milestone:	2.1 → none

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jus (jus) wrote on 2017-06-23:

Now that Fraunhofer IIS terminated the MP3 patent-licensing program [1], we can seek to have the mp3 codec legally bundled by default. Fraunhofer recommend [2] to get in touch [3] for official query.

[1] https://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/en/ff/amm/prod/audiocodec/audiocodecs/mp3.html
[2] http://www.audioblog.iis.fraunhofer.com/mp3-software-patents-licenses/
[3] https://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/en/ff/amm/prod/audiocodec/audiocodecs/mp3.html#tabpanel-2

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Daniel Schürmann (daschuer) wrote on 2017-06-23:

This is how fedora deals with it.
https://fedoramagazine.org/full-mp3-support-coming-soon-to-fedora/

I think we can now just bundle LAME, without a risk to being sued.

I thing we should continue to go with lame, because it is still "maintained" and known to work well.

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jus (jus) wrote on 2017-06-24:

Nice, changed subject accordingly.

summary:

- Automatically download and install the LAME mp3 plugin required for
- Recording and Streaming
+ Bundle LAME mp3 plugin required for Recording and Streaming

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RJ Skerry-Ryan (rryan) wrote on 2018-04-17:

https://github.com/mixxxdj/buildserver/issues/32