--------------------------------------------------------------------- Ok, Jon success here with xmms!
I started experimenting after I saw your last mail with xmms. I noticed it wouldn't even load a mp3 file, it just kicked them out, plus if I loaded a playlist of mp3's, which it would do, I found, when I hit the play button, it just run through the files without playing them! I came to the conclusion there must still be some SuSE provided files installed that was blocking the use of xmms & mp3.
I went into YaST2 to investigate and found all xmms files installed were Packman builds except one. The xmms-plugins (suse) conflicted with xmms-lib-mad (packman), so I removed the suse package, installed only Packman builds and there ya go! XMMS now plays & loads without problems, although I still think they need to update it to GTK+ look.
Lee
Hi again, I really wish I could report the same luck, however, I am experiencing some very unusual problems. First of all, xmms plays the mp3files, only when being root and executing xmms. I installed only packman-packages(xmms xmms-lib-mad and xmms-lib), I figured it had to be a problem with my sound permissions, but I am a member of the "sound" group, no luck there. I checked the permissions on the mp3files, thinking they were owned by root and such. No luck, I am the owner and has read/write permissions. I also noticed that xmms will only play _one_ mp3, and then give up and refuse to play any more. Jon