playing and ripping, ogg and mp3s?

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 10:01:42AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 19:47 -0400, Tony wrote:
> > I have tried playing my ogg files with XMMS on my ubuntu installation,
> > but it does not appear to work.  I have been able to install Real
> > Player and it works O.K. So I would assume my sound card is not the
> > issue.  Can someone clearify what software, above the basic ubuntu
> > installation, is necessary to play ogg and mp3 files?
> 
> Nothing extra required for OGG vorbis playing, perhaps you haven't
> configured XMMS to use the esound output plugin?

Also, try rhythmbox ("Music Player" in the menu).

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 - mdz (ex-xmms user)