Xmms freezes

[MartinJ]

I boot it up via the terminal, and when I select a song, and when I select play it freezes. It does display the ID3 tag correctly.

I did

sudo cp /usr/share/applications/defaults.list /usr/share/applications/defaults.list_backup
sudo cp /usr/share/applications/defaults.list /tmp/defaults.list_tmp
sudo sed -e 's/audio\/mpeg=.*/audio\/mpeg=XMMS.desktop/g' /tmp/defaults.list_tmp > /tmp/defaults.mp3
sudo sed -e 's/audio\/x-mpegurl=.*/audio\/x-mpegurl=XMMS.desktop/g' /tmp/defaults.mp3 > /tmp/defaults.m3u
sudo sed -e 's/audio\/x-wav=.*/audio\/x-wav=XMMS.desktop/g' /tmp/defaults.m3u > /tmp/defaults.list
sudo mv /tmp/defaults.list /usr/share/applications/defaults.list
sudo rm -f /tmp/defaults.*

I also installed libsmpeg0

[St. Joe]

Goto Options > Prefs and check your Output Plugin.
Adjust according to your system and/or environment.

[MartinJ]

Any tips on finding where to read about this as I went where you told me to go and it had selected OSS and it all seemed normal to be with OSS and it still freezes.