Mike, which distro/version are you using?  It's possible that the version
of xmms that came with your distro didn't include the ability to play
MP3's for legal reasons.  You can download and build the source from
here (or use the RPM if you're running RedHat/Fedora):

http://www.xmms.org/download.php

Then do the "./configure; make && make install" dance and you should be
good to go.




On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Michael Havens wrote:

>
>
> YOu know guys,
> I just got off of the phone with a fellow PLUGer and he was under the
> misconception that I believe many of you may be under; that is that I don't
> have an encoder in place (which is not the case). My issue is that while
> the .wav files will play just fine I can't get the files that have been
> encoded as .mp3s to play.
> We even loaded xmms up and he showed me how to configure it. Unfortunately I
> had already read  in it's man page (and it proved to be true) that it is
> configured by default to play .mp3s.
>
> So my 5 gig partition I had set aside for music is now filled to the brim
> with .wav files. They sound very nice but are VERY BIG. The same song is
> 41.9MB as a  WAV but 128 B as an MP3
>
> Now I have a new issue: I shut down the system and upon restarting, after
> entering the login and password, an alert appeared informing me that
> 'nspluginscan' crashed (signal 11).Then the desktop started to appear and the
> following error appeared six seperate times:
>
> 	Could not find mime type application/octet-stream
>
> I'm sure this is the last thing you want to hear.... wait... let's google it!
> So I entered the error in the search box presssed enter... and voila; a bunch
> of hits came up.
>  I followed this solution (1) and wanted to knw if it is appropriate.I also
> found a solution which involves deleting a file so I knew I better ask if it
> was good (2).
>
> 1-
> 	To solve this problem:
> 	 1) open konqueror (dismiss the warnings)
> 	 2) click "Settings" then "Configure Konqueror..."
> 	 3) click on the "File Associations" button/icon
> 	 4) click the "Add..." button
> 	 5) change the Group to application, type "octet-stream" into the Type name
> 	 field
> 	 6) Press OK
> 	 7) change the icon/description to suit your taste. Don't touch the filename
> 	 patterns though.
> 	 press OK
>
> 2-
>  	I had the same problem and was able to correct it by deleting this file. It
> 	seemed that the contents were mangled:
> 	        ~/.kde/share/mimelnk/application/octet-stream.desktop
>
> After writing the above I thought that 'nsplugin crashed during login' might
> be an appropriate search term to help find a solution to the remaining
> problem. So into the search box it went and a few hits appeared:
>
> I found that someone reported it as a bug to RedHat but it went on further to
> say that "It was barfing on some not-100%-standard Mozilla plugin but that it
> was fixed in 2.2-5 but that isn't right.
>
> So can you tell me what is right?
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