Hi, Recently xmms stopped playing MP3s on my system, which it used to handle just fine. I really only use XMMS to play pod-cast tracks downloaded by CastPodder (formerly iPodder, thank you Apple). My attempts to diagnose the problem were initially confused by the fact that a recent update to CastPodder contained a bug that causes it not to pass file name arguments on to xmms when launching it to play a track it had downloaded. When I figured that out, I tried opening audio files manually from XMMS. Only then did I realized that xmms was having problems with MP3s but not, e.g., Ogg-Vorbis files. Furthermore, a quick attempt to use various other MP3-capable players shows they're all working properly. Has anybody else encountered this symptom? If so, have you diagnosed the cause of the problem? Have you fixed it? Thanks in advance. Randall Schulz