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Re: xmms on linux doesn't load file or play URLs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ike)
Wed Jun 18 11:12:19 2003
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 11:07:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ike <ike@MIT.EDU>
To: "Aaron M. Ucko" <amu@alum.MIT.EDU>
cc: <testers@mit.edu>
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I forgot, and recently remembered something, and I have a better
understanding of the problem now:
The first time you try to play an mp3 with xmms on 9.2, it pops up a
message about mp3 patent/license issues, and how it won't play mp3s
anymore. XMMS will still play ogg vorbis files though.
This seems pretty silly to me, since a working mpg123 is included in the
same distribution.
Can xmms be made to work with mp3s again, by having 9.2 use a non-broken
version, or by fixing the broken version?
-Ike
On 17 Jun 2003, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
> <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).
