---------------------------------------------------------------- Jon, I also am still unable to get XMMS to play mp3 files, but Amarok does them and everything else nicely. I suspect if you have updated Amarok lately you just may need to change the engine you are using. I know from the opensuse list that some of them are not working well. I use "arts" and don't seem to have problems. I really haven't tried the others to test, so can't remark on them.
Hm, I should've guessed as much. However, what I did: I installed the amaroK-arts package, as well as amaroK-gstreamer and amarok-xine, now, amarok-xine just runs through the playlist, amarok-arts complains about no arts, and arts is installed (checked) but I cannot choose arts in control panel -> sound and multimedia -> Sound system, and amarok-gstreamer will sometimes cause amaroK to stop responding. Starting artsd from the command line spawns an infinte amount of "starting artsd"-like messages and it seems to be looping forever.C hoosing the arts enginge does not work after starting artsd.
Not sure what is wrong with XMMS, it's unusual that it doesn't work. I have even updated to the packman build and still no mp3 playback, plus the main window looks funny, which leads me to believe it's not happy with GTK+ right now.
hopefully helpful, Lee
I like amaroK better anyway ;) Jon