I have been having some trouble with my music players. Amarok works fine with .ogg files, but whenever I try to play an mp3, it just doesn't play. No error message or anything. So I tryed to in Xine, but it turns out I need to install something else first, which won't work on my computer. It worked using mp3's up until I updated YaST2.

I have also tryed XMMS which is very iffy. Sometimes it works with mp3s and other times it just freezes. Whenever it does play mp3s the sound quality is so bad I find it difficult to listen to. Does anyone have any solutions to these problems? Any other music players you would recommend? BTW, I have SuSE 9.2 pro if that makes a difference.

Thanks in advance,

Jimmi

First of all: if you got to `My LQ', then `Edit profile' and scroll down, there's a field name `distribution'. Fill that out--then you don't have to say `I use foolinux' in every thread.

Second of all, I would have liked if you had been a little more precise in your thread.

You say that you use amarok--that makes me think you use KDE. Correct?

Is there a problem in you telling us
1) what you needed to install; and
2) why it wouldn't work on your box;
Who knows, you might be wrong

Regarding xmms freezes: which output plugin do you use? Which sound software are you running? Alsa/OSS? jackd/artsd/esd?

Do you have a player which plays wav nicely?

Try outputting an mp3 with the diskwriter, and play back the wav. Does it sound the same (i.e. bad)?

Have you verified that the sound file isn't bad itself (i.e. had a friend (or sworn enemy, I don't care ) with a working sound output play it back flawlessly)?

hth --Jonas

First of all, sorry if I was a bit inprecise.

Second of all: The files I need to install are libstdc++.so.6, libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4), and libstdc++.so.6(CXXABI_1.3).

The file I downloaded is "libstdc++-mainline-4.0.1_20050603-0.1.x86_64.rpm" This is what I need, right? When I click install package with YaST, it opens up saying "Reading package information; One moment please." And then when it's done that, it just disappears.

About XMMS: I don't have any plugins installed.....what one would you recommend? And it only freezes when trying to play mp3s.

I know the quality of the mp3s is good for 3 reasons:

1. They run at 192 kbps
2. I was running them with perfect sound quality on Amarak before I updated YaST.
3. I can run them with perfect sound quality on Windows.

And finally, I don't have any wave files, so I can't really answer that question


BTW I'm a if you haven't already figured that out (which you probably have)

Thanks,

Jimmi

That's all right, we're all allowed to make mistakes

...That's a way to learn, after all.

try or Start up XMMS, hit Ctrl-p, click the first tab called `Audio I/O plugins'... you *do* have plugins

Any one that's Free Software (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) and does the job you want done.

That might suggest there's a bug or misconfig in the mp3 plugin. Try opening its `configure' dialog box--is there anything that looks both understandable and suspicious to you?

Try another mp3 input plugin.

1) it could be 192 kbps silence, or line noise, or gobbledeegook. Sample rate doesn't prove anything here.
2 & 3 are quite valid though.

Install the xmms wave output plugin and produce a .wav from something that plays well (.ogg?) in xmms.

Yes.

With that in mind: I hope my answers seem understandable and reasonable. If not, let me know--I want to help you, but I find my style of helping you most natural (it's my style after all). Which is not to say I won't adapt.

--Jonas

I may be an uber noob, but I can understand

Thanks for your help. I'll see if it works.

Yay! +1 to me for clarity

You're welcome.

--Jonas