Re: no sound..

[Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:48:47 +0100
Nigel Henry <cave.dnb@tiscali.fr> wrote:

> To play mp3's you will need to have the "lame" package installed, at
> least I need that using the mhwaveedit player/editor.
> https://gna.org/projects/mhwaveedit/

Lame is for encoding (creating) not decoding (playing) mp3s.

> I'm not sure if lame is needed for Xmms. Another package worth

No it's not needed. I also prefer beep-media-player instead of xmms.

> looking at is mpg123.

Better the free replacement mpg321 (mpg123 is in the non-free section).
My favorite console player is moc.

Regards,
Andrei
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