XMMS freezes - not playing after apt-get upgrade on Testing

[Uwe Dippel <udippel@uniten.edu.my>]

Subject says it.
Did my daily dose of upgrade, rebooted, and now XMMS doesn't want to play.
At 'play' it keeps at 0:00, but active.
Another click on 'play' makes it freeze. 
It can only be removed with kill then.

It uses esd as output plugin; esd works and is running.
Yesterday it had been fine.

How to rectify this ?

Uwe