Audio in Core 6

[S. Feldman]

Mpg123 worked before, and still does.  But I was talking about a GUI.   
Somehow command-line doesn't suit media players, IMHO.

Any ideas on xmms or audacious?

TIA,

Steve

On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 15:36:41 -0600, Amadeus W. M. <amadeus84 at verizon.net>  
wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:41:38 -0600, S. Feldman wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm still a bit new to Linux and FC6; trying to tweak up my install (HP
>> Pavilion laptop) and have been having trouble with xmms.  I had it
>> running, but for some reason tried to upgrade it (via the GUI package
>> upgrader, I think) and lost MP3 capability.  I managed to bring it back
>> (older version?) with yum, and then yum'ed xmms-mp3.  Now xmms accepts  
>> the
>> request to play the MP3, but it runs through a 20 minute program in  
>> about
>> 20 seconds w/o emitting any sounds at all!  What did I do wrong?
>>
>> Separately, I tried to install audacious, and it too has a separate  
>> plugin
>> pack for MP3, but when I try to install (manually) the pack, it gives me
>> errors saying "Have you installed audacious yet?".  What do I gotta do  
>> to
>> get MP3 capabilities on Linux?  (I've got mpg123 running, but...)
>>
>
> What happens if you play the mp3s at the prompt using mpg123?
> yum install mpg321      (note the reverse order).
>
> mpg123 file*.mp3
>
> Then what happens?
>



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