Admittedly I have mucked around with things. At one time, I did have rhythmbox playing aac files pulled off my ipod but rhythmbox kept crashing when my ipod was connected so I have tried various things such as removing and installing rhythmbox over again and the various gstreamer files. Right now, it will identify and play mp3 files but not m4a (aac files). # rpm -qa|grep rhythmbox rhythmbox-0.8.8-2.1.fc3.rf # rpm -qa|grep gstream gstreamer-plugins-0.8.5-1 gstreamer-plugins-mp3-0.8.5-0.lvn.2.3 gstreamer-tools-0.8.7-4.FC3.0 gstreamer-0.8.7-4.FC3.0 # rpm -qa|grep faad faad2-2.0-4.1.fc3.rf xmms will play aac files # rpm -qa|grep xmms xmms-1.2.10-11.1.1.fc3.rf xmms-aac-2.0-4.1.fc3.rf xmms-flac-1.1.0-7 xmms-mp3-1.2.10-11.1.1.fc3.rf Any suggestions? Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.