XMMS Not Working with MP3 files

[karlp at ourldsfamily.com]

> Recently I migrated my comp to RedHat Linux 9.0, when tried to play a
> mp3 file, there is a message "License Issue".
>
Howdy Naveen,

visit www.google.com
and enter:
xmms mp3 license

You should find something about how xmms devel lost the lease for the
codecs necessary to play mp3 files. it was part of some stupid lawsuit
over copyright infringement, IIRC...

You can download a version that will play mp3 files just fine. I however,
use mplayer (formerly gmplayer) with a script that plays the files
randomly. Sharing done via request.

Karl