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Re: xmms on linux doesn't load file or play URLs

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Tue Jun 17 13:44:35 2003

To: Ike <ike@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
From: amu@alum.mit.edu (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 17 Jun 2003 13:44:31 -0400
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<ike@MIT.EDU> (Ike) writes:

> On both scar and cheshire-cat (OLC office machines) xmms will run, but
> won't play any sound.  It won't load files if it's told to, and if it gets
> fed a url for a streaming mp3 playlist, the ip address for the stream
> shows in the playlist window, but xmms won't play that either.

What output plugin do you have selected?  It sounds like you might
have wound up with the disk writer (still a bug if you hadn't
explicitly requested it, of course).

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Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org)
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