An actual solution to this problem is to head over to
http://psyche.freshrpms.net/ There you can download the
xmms-mp3 rpm.
Once that's installed you'll be fine.
> From: Tammy Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: XMMS
>
> XMMS in RHL 8.0 does not play MP3s. From the release notes:
>
> o Due to patent licensing, and conflicts between such patent licenses
> and the licenses of application source code, MPEG-1/2 audio layer 3
> (mp3) support has been removed from applications in Red Hat Linux such
> as XMMS and noatun. Red Hat suggests the use of Ogg Vorbis(TM), an
> open, non-proprietary, patent-and-royalty-free compressed audio
> format.
>
> Cheers,
> Tammy
>
> On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 10:21:32AM -0400, Garf DeLong wrote:
> > For some reason I can not get XMMS to work. I have system sounds, can play
> > .wavs in Noatun, but XMMS will not play anything (mp3, location, ect). Any
> > ideas ?
> >
> > It was working fine till upgrading from 7.3 to 8.0. I even unloaded XMMS and
> > reinstalled both from package and from source with no luck.
> >
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