MP3 won't play on SUSE Pro 9.3

[digitalfreedom64]

I tried to play several MP3s with XMMS. It won't play them though. Don't know why it won't, XMMS on Mepis played em fine.

[ffreeloader]

I tried to play several MP3s with XMMS. It won't play them though. Don't know why it won't, XMMS on Mepis played em fine.

Does SuSe use alsa? If so I had a similar problem with xmms and alsa on Debian when I first started using xmms and alsa. It ended up being in the xmms preferences where you configure the alsa settings. For some reason it wasn't auto configured to use the correct sound hardware. I'd do some searching in that area and playing with settings to see what you find.

HTH.

[ffreeloader]

One other thing to check. Playing mp3's uses the PCM settings in the alsa mixers. If that is set at minimum you won't get any sound either.

[digitalfreedom64]

Well see the thing is that when I add the mp3 to the playlist in xmms it doesn't add it to the list. I don't know what the deal is with this thing. I ripped one of my cds to ogg files and it played those fine. I guess if I can't figure out this problem with it not wanting to play MP3 files I can convert them all to ogg.

[kilgoretrout]

This was a little controversial but IIRC, suse 9.3 originally came without mp3 support. RH and Fedora still refuse to have mp3 support out of the box because of potetial patent issues and I guess suse decided to follow suit. There was a big uproar about it and suse quickly put mp3 support back in via the online updates. Check around with some suse people but I'm sure you can get the mp3 support back by running the yast updates. Not sure what packages you need to install though.

[digitalfreedom64]

I'll check into it.

[digitalfreedom64]

Thanks kilgoretrout for that Yast tip. that did the trick. I knew that Fedora had MP3 support removed, used it a total of 2 weeks before switching to SUSE.

[Gibble]

Glad to hear your problem worked out, just wanted to let you know that with Suse, Fedora and such, you can use Apt-get to add support as well.

[digitalfreedom64]

The KMusicManager that I downloaded and compiled even works now . I'm kind of proud of myself, it's the first program I've compiled. Been trying various Linux distros on and off for about 6 months now. Suse is the first one i've actually tried to compile a program on. I guess the reason being this is the first time i've totally dropped windows and been serious about making a go of switching.

[ffreeloader]

I'm kind of proud of myself, it's the first program I've compiled.

I know what you mean. Compiling a program from source just seemed like such a mysterious task that I was really intimidated just thinking about it. After I'd done it I wondered why I had ever thought it was such a big deal. However, I didn't start small, I had always wanted to play with a kernel so about 3 months after I started playing with Linux I compiled my first kernel from source and found out it isn't that big of a deal.

Ah, the freedom of being able to really customize your own system. Don't you just love Linux? It's so much better than Windows there is no comparison.

[digitalfreedom64]

you wouldn't happen to know anything about printer dirvers would you. I been trying to get my mom onto Linux but here Dell printer isn't listed.