FLAC files no longer playable using xmms
by rkomar from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6ECTH)
xmms used a plugin provided in the flac package to play FLAC files. That plugin was deprecated in flac-1.4.1, and then removed in flac-1.4.2. So, that's that for official packages.
Most of my collection is encoded as FLAC, so this was really annoying for me. I ended up downloading flac-1.4.1, configuring the build with --enable-xmms-plugin, and then copying the hand-built libxmms-flac.so and libxmms-flac.la files to /usr/lib64/xmms/Input/. With this, xmms can play FLAC files again even with flac-1.4.3 installed on the system. I don't know if later flac packages will break this, but at least it works for now. I write this in case anyone else wants to keep using xmms to play FLAC files like I do in slackware-current.
Most of my collection is encoded as FLAC, so this was really annoying for me. I ended up downloading flac-1.4.1, configuring the build with --enable-xmms-plugin, and then copying the hand-built libxmms-flac.so and libxmms-flac.la files to /usr/lib64/xmms/Input/. With this, xmms can play FLAC files again even with flac-1.4.3 installed on the system. I don't know if later flac packages will break this, but at least it works for now. I write this in case anyone else wants to keep using xmms to play FLAC files like I do in slackware-current.