[trappleye]

I am having problems playing mp3's on my redhat 9 system with xmms. Now here is a detailed description of the problem, it may be too much info, but it also might help. I have 2 hard drives, hda1 is solely a windows partition, and hdb is split into two, an ntfs and my linux ext partition. Well last night I reformatted hda, and reinstalled Windows, when I did this, for some reason I lost my grub boot loader, and I couldn't boot to my installed version of linux on hdb2. The only option I could find for reinstalling grub was reinstalling linux. So I did that too. However I chose to make my root in the same place as before (hdb2), and chose the option of not overwriting the files and directories that were already on the partition. The install was a success. I was able to reinstall the grub loader, and keep all my files in my home directory, and all my programs and settings were left unchanged. However, my mp3 decoder that was working yesterday, is no longer working! I get the same message that I got before installing my mp3 decoder:
"Couldn't open audio
Check that:
1. You have the correct output plug in selected
2. No other program is blocking the sound card
3. Your sound card is configured properly

I have been trying to figure this out all morning. I have dowloaded xmms-mp3-1.2.7-21.p.fr1.i386.rpm, because this is the one that I installed before and it worked. However, I get an error when I try to run this command:
[root@localhost tr69]# rpm -iv xmms-mp3-1.2.7-21.p.fr1.i386.rpm
warning: xmms-mp3-1.2.7-21.p.fr1.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e42d547b
Preparing packages for installation...
package xmms-mp3-1.2.7-21.p.fr1 is already installed
file /usr/lib/xmms/Input/libmpg123.so from install of xmms-mp3-1.2.7-21.p.fr1 conflicts with file from package xmms-mpg123-1.2.7-21
file /usr/lib/xmms/Input/libmpg123.so from install of xmms-mp3-1.2.7-21.p.fr1 conflicts with file from package xmms-1.2.8-1
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and [root@localhost tr69]# rpm -Uv xmms-mp3-1.2.7-21.p.fr1.i386.rpm
gives me the same error. I tried the --force option too, but that didn't work either.
xmms has been nothing but problems since I have started using linux. I even went to the preferences and tried to switch to every different plug-in that I could, and still nothing.

I have read all the previous strings about xmms mp3 problems, and none of the fixes were what I needed.

I am not even sure that my xmms is installed correctly. I don't even completely understand how linux installs software. In windows I can always find the .exe file that runs the application, I can't find this for xmms.

[srhoades]

By default RedHat 9 does not ship with the mp3 plugin. Google is your friend.

[lynch]

Did you see this thread ?
lynch