On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 22:28:29 -0800, Jamie Zawinski wrote: > So then I tried Totem, and it suffers from the canonical Red Hat > braindamage of "oh, you haven't installed the mystery secret MP3 plugin, > and no, I won't even hint to you where to find it." Frankly, I can't be > bothered to go on this snark hunt again, I've done that enough times. Totem uses GStreamer, and hence gstreamer-plugins-mp3 from the same old http://rpm.livna.org repository works just fine. > So, I'd be thrilled to try out an alternative MP3 player to XMMS, just > as soon as someone can point me to one that actually plays MP3s! Amarok (KDE application) as provided in Fedora pre-Extras is quite nice, but needs kdemultimedia-extras as provided by rpm.livna.org before it would play mp3s.