mp3 files don't launch right (XMMS and Audio Player)

[Oliver Leitner]

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Matt Morgan wrote:

| I'm using FC3 with Gnome, with all updates automatically (using the
|  yum.conf suggested by fedorafaq.org).
|
| When I double-click on an ogg file, XMMS launches and plays the
| file. If I right-click and choose  "audio player" (which I think
| means rhythmbox) instead of XMMS, it also launches successfully and
| plays the file.
|
| On the other hand, if I try either of the same tasks with an mp3
| file, the apps launch fine but do not begin playing the file. If I
| then go to File--Open or File--Play File, I can play the file.
|
| In other words, both players can launch correctly, and both players
|  can play mp3 files, but neither will launch AND play the file.
|
| Any thoughts? Obviously I can work around this but I'm going
| through a lot of digitizing lately and it would be great to fix
| this.
|
| Thanks, Matt
|

vi /etc/yum.repos.d/livna.repo
~    [livna]
~    name=Livna Stable
~   
baseurl=http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/RPMS.stable/
~    enabled=1

yum install xmms-mp3
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