[NTLUG:Discuss] XMMS not playing MP3's?

[Jack Snodgrass]

On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 14:38, Wayne Dahl wrote:
> I downloaded an MP3 from a web site that's a joke...an impersonator
> impersonating Paul Harvey selling bongs.  When I attempt to play it with
> XMMS, nothing happens.  I click on the play button in XMMS and it pulls
> up a window to select a file.  I click on the file, the box disappears
> and nothing else happens.  If I click on the play button again, the file
> select box comes back up.  What's going on?
> 
> I seem to remember you guys talking about some problem with MP3's
> before.  Will XMMS not play MP3's any more?
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> Wayne

the RH8.0 XMMS won't do MP3 because of some sort of licensing 
problems with MP3s. You can go to the www.xmmx.org site
and there are a couple of links that you can use to get your 
RH8.0 XMMS player playing MP3 songs. 

jack