Note: WAV files can include various encodings; audioplay doesn't support them all.
According to http://www.mp3licensing.com/licensees/index.asp, Sun has an MP3 license (although I have no idea of just what it covers). Even if audioplay could be modified to support MP3 WAV files, it may well be impossible for the MP3 decoder to be open source. (OTOH http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3 says the patent holder aren't enforcing against free decoders, and I think I see an mp3 input plugin for the SFW xmms. So could audioplay be enhanced for MP3 (and any other common non-proprietary WAV encodings not already supported) or not? Some sort of proper plugin (with a small GUI) would be nice, too. Can something already present or already open source be used like that (without crud like Xswallow or plugger)? This message posted from opensolaris.org
