Solution seems to be simple: configure with --disable-mp3lib. On my system, it plays mp3 files just fine after compiling with that. I had ffmpeg installed, but even after removing it (I even made sure libavcodec and libavformat were removed, too), mp3 playback still works. Am I missing something?
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