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

[Bart Couvreur]

On 8/22/05, Oliver Leitner <shadow333 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Matt Morgan wrote:
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> | 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

He has done that i guess, if xmms can play mp3's
Check how a mp3-file is executed (File Associations, where it is, I
can't remember), probably with an xmms -e (which adds it to the
playlist) and not an xmms -p (which plays the file) and for rhythmbox
make it rhytmbox --play

Hope this helps
Bart