cannot play mp3 files

[John Aldrich]

On Tuesday 07 November 2006 3:20 pm, Andreas (Andy) Roddau wrote:
> >
> > Sorry but I'm not sure how to install the mp3 extensions. Is this the
> > mplayer codecs?
>
> It might be adequate to go to http://zod.freshrpms.net and install
> the "xine-lib-extras" package.  Mplayer is a movie player and while it may
> or may not play mp3's I expect the codecs for it will not help you.
>
> I'm new at this too, I hope the above helps.
>
I don't know much about xine, however, I *do* know that XMMS with the XMMS-MP3 
plugin works just beautifully. Listening to some MP3s I have on my system 
right now! :-)