On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 22:07, Charles Howse wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > I just need some assurance that I haven't broken my system... > > I have accidentally let yum update xmms from 1.2.9 to 1.2.10, and now I get > the "We don't do mp3 anymore" msg when trying to play a stream from > ShoutCast. > > I did > # yum remove xmms > but it wanted to remove some kde files (can't remember the names) as > dependencies, which I thought was a bad idea, and cancelled. > > I have done > # rpm -e --nodeps xmms > and > #rpm -ivh ~/tmp/xmms-1.2.9-1.i386.rpm > which fixed the problem, and have added exclude=xmms to my /etc/yum/conf. > why not simply install the xmms-mp3 rpm for the mp3 plugin? then disable the mp3-placeholder plug in in xmms. i'm using xmms 1.2.10 with the xmms-mp3 plug for that same version, playing a stream on shoutcast right now. works fine. you can get the yum.conf from http://fedora.artoo.net/faq/ and check that out. it includes enabled fedora.us and rpm.livna.org. or you can just download the rpm for xmms-mp3 from livna manually. dex
