not loading mp3's

[teimu]

hi, im using fedora core 1, and im trying to load my mp3's to play in xmms, but unfortunatly, when i do, there is no affect. i double click a song or press play in the load dialog and nothing happens. it seems as if the program wasnt told to do anything. my sound card is a SoundBlaster Audigy 2 Audio / IEEE 1394 (Firewire). I looked for new drivers, but only windows is supported

During the install of linux, however, i did hear the test music. This is the only sound ive heard my whole linux experience(about 3 months).

ive tried using the command prompt, such as

xmms [song]

and that doesnt work either. Ive tried and got the same results with Kaboodle as well.

Any ideas?

[sdousley]

try jus putting some files into a playlist and choose run from the K Menu i (if you're in KDE, and typee xmms -p, this will play what's in the list. Can you play wav files? Or is it just mp3's that ddon't work?

[logan5]

Are you sure that you have the mp3 plugin loaded for xmms? By default xmms won't play mp3's.

Check the following link for the rpm . Just make usre that you get the right one for your environment.

http://dag.wieers.com/packages/xmms-mp3/

[sarumont]

Are you sure that you have the mp3 plugin loaded for xmms? By default xmms won't play mp3's.

Check the following link for the rpm . Just make usre that you get the right one for your environment.

http://dag.wieers.com/packages/xmms-mp3/

By default in Fedora/RH, that is.

That should be your problem, though. RH/Fedora doesn't include mp3 support by default because mp3 is a proprietary/closed algorithm.