New library and aRts-plugin

[Allan Sandfeld Jensen]

After having hinted it in a bug-report that I am working on replacing mpeglib, 
I better introduce it properly on kde-multimedia and ask for permission to 
add it to the feature-list.

The project name is currently akodelib and will be imported to kdenonbeta in a 
weeks time or so.

The idea started as a merger of two seperate projects:
 The first one was an improved ogg-plugin for aRts that also included speex 
and FLAC support, I realised early, that if I added MP3-support and made it 
streaming, it would replace everything mpeglib is currently used for in KDE 
(vorbis and mp3 playback). Status for this part is that non-streaming 
playback is working excellent, but I havent completed the streaming aRts-API 
yet.
 The other project was the wish to merge the various encoders used in KDE, 
where we have seperate encoders in k3b, kio-audiocd and kaudiocreator. I also 
wanted to close http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29470 in a proper way by 
making a cross-encoding service. The status here is somewhat behind schedule, 
I have flac and vorbis encoding, but no application or configuration. I do 
not think it will make it completly for KDE 3.3, but maybe it can integrate a 
little with audiocd.

Since feature-plan freeze is two days away, I plan to commit the attached 
patch to the feature-plan tomorrow, unless anyone has serious objections 
about the library's inclusion in kde-multimedia.

`Allan
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