Hi everybody, I have installed "madplay" on my system (FC-3). i have installed the following dependencies correctly... 1.) libmad-0.15.1b 2.) libid3tag-0.15.1b & these are installed wihtout any problem. After these i installed "madplay-0.15.2b".It is also installed without any problem but i try to run it to decode a mp3 file or ask it for help, it gives following error. ***************************************************** [hacker@localhost lame-3.96.1]$ madplay --help madplay: error while loading shared libraries: libid3tag.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [hacker@localhost lame-3.96.1]$ ******************************************************** i have added the following lines to my <.bashrc> file in my home directory: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/lib export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig AND these are the contents of my </usr/local/lib> directoty: *************************************************************************************************** [hacker@localhost Desktop]$ ls /usr/local/lib libid3tag.a libid3tag.so.0 libmad.la libmad.so.0.2.1 libmp3lame.so libz.so libid3tag.la libid3tag.so.0.3.0 libmad.so libmp3lame.a libmp3lame.so.0 libz.so.1 libid3tag.so libmad.a libmad.so.0 libmp3lame.la libmp3lame.so.0.0.0 libz.so.1.2.2 [hacker@localhost Desktop]$ **************************************************************************************************** also my </etc/ld.so.conf> file reads: include ld.so.conf.d/*.conf /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/local/lib i want to use "madplay" because its decoding time (from .mp3 to .wav which i finally decode to .ogg as i did not find any good quality .mp3 to .ogg decoder)is exactly 1/2 of LAME & quality is same. can anybody help me? thanks "fraser" "the Great Intellectuals" __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com