no sound playing mp3 with xmms
 

Hi guys!

A few days ago I found a thread about my problem, I thought. but it didn't quite help me...

When I play mp3's with xmms I get no sound even if the player is playing. (I have installed the mp3-package). Thers's nothing wrong with my sondcard because I get sounds while playing games etc. In the thread I found (above) some guys said that the volume bars sometimes where at the bottom, but I have gone through all the bars in the volume control so that can't be the problem.
The strange part of my problem is that when I play mp3's in xmms as root everything is working normally. I've got no idea how to solve this.

btw. I get no sound playing audio-cd's either...:(

hi there


try this also
get the latest xmms package fro xmms.org

and install that by --force option like this

rpm -ivh --force xmms-1.2.10-i386.rpm

regards

This sounds like a permissions problem. Add your user account to the "audio" group

This sounds promising... but how do I add my account to the audio group??

If FC has a control panel of any sort, it may be as simple as accessing the "users" dialogue as root and checking a box under the user you need to add to a certain group. "man adduser" and "man useradd" should bring this answer to light for you (good idea to read it, even though I'm gonna show you: or you may have to or edit /etc/group and add your username to the line which denotes the owners of the audio group.

I've tried everything you've said but when I run the terminal commands I get a message "unknown group audio"... I can't find audio in etc/group and it's not in the users and groups dialogue either...:( strange...

Confusing. This thread suggests that this may be something to do with the sound server of the window manager interfering. See if killing that off restores your sound.

no... it doesn't help... My problem seems to be specific for xmms... I can play mp3s and watch movies with mplayer without a problem... I don't like mplayer very much though...

You might want to play with juk, rhapsody, or amorok. They're nice jukeboxes.