Binary package hint: gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3
The bug is that with some mp3's (http://www.devteam.org/users/mccorkle/mp3/Chrono_Trigger_Black_Wind_Rising_OC_ReMix.mp3 is an example) the mp3 playback becomes muddy (listed to around 1:20-1:35 in that mp3 to hear what I'm talking about). It has been fixed in the newer version of Fluend's mp3 decoder. I first reported this bug to the songbird group, then tracked it up to gstreamer, and those guys pointed out that the version of flump3dec is "fairly old and known-to-be-buggy". If someone could point me to a quick howto on updateing the gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3 package, I'd be happy to help.
Most recent bug hunting was in GStream's bugzilla:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=426976
Previous bug was on SongBird's bugzilla:
http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2899
::Mark McCorkle
This package should either be upgraded to a recent version or removed. MP3 files play fine without fluendo, as there are other plugins that can cover this.
But please make sure that the codec installation assistant knows about this change and doesn't try to install gstreamer0.
One of the targets of Hardy is to remove duplicate stuff. Having two (or more?) plugins for one mediatype doesn't make sense as we can use only one at a time.