Lets see... mp3 decoding is heavy compared to wav files.. its 2009 and disk is cheap and fast why worry about it?  Not sure you wanna scale mp3 playback to the same level you can wav files.

/b

On Oct 3, 2009, at 12:07 PM, Diego Viola wrote:

Why is not recommended?

On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Brian West <brian@freeswitch.org> wrote:
MP3 is NOT recommend and if WAV files are too large you can mosey on
down to the local Best Buy and snag 1.5TB of disk for like $119
dollars.  Disk is cheap.

/b