Full MP3 support coming soon to Fedora - Fedora MagazineBoth MP3 encoding and decoding will soon be officially supported in Fedora. Last November the patents covering MP3 decoding expired and Fedora Workstation enabled MP3 decoding via the mpg123 library and GStreamer. This update allowed users with the package installed on their systems to listen to MP3 encoded music. The MP3 codec and Open Source have had a troubled relationship over the past decade,
