XMMS no longer working
 

This is a strange problem...

For no apparent reason, xmms suddenly stopped working. I open it successfully, and as soon as I double-click on a sound file to play, it crashes (no response from clicking on anything in the window), and I have to xkill the window. Then it won't open at all until I "killall xmms," and then the process repeats itself if I try to open it again. The strange thing is, the only system changes I can remember doing between it working and not working is updating perl. Any ideas what is happening here? Thanks.

EDIT:
Just playing with it after the post, I realized why it was freezing, but it still doesn't work. In trying to fix an earlier problem when it stopped working I changed the output plugin to OSS. Now I've changed it back to alsa (what it was before), and now clicking on any file gives me the "Couldn't open audio: Please check that soundcard configured properly, correct output plugin selected, and no other program blocking audio output." This was just working before with all the current settings. What could I have accidentally done to cause this? Thanks again.

EDIT 2:
Sorry for my tendency to post before getting all the information. I get the above error when trying to click on the ogg files and live streams in my playlist, but I can put in a CD and it plays fine.

Perhaps a daemon like artsd is running. Try killall artsd.

That fixed it in a roundabout way. I tried that and I still got the same error, but it reminded me that I was using artsd before, not alsa directly. I downloaded and installed an xmms-artsd plugin (not sure why that wasn't required before), switched to that, and it works fine again. Thanks!