On 8/22/05, Oliver Leitner <shadow333@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > 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 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
