Hi all!

I've been unlucky in finding an answer to this so far but perhaps some of you fellow Slackers can point me in the right direction.

I can play music throught mpg123, but none of the KDE3 sound apps seem to play any music, with the exception to the KDE terminal where I can type mpg123 to play mp3s .
Permissions don't seem to be the prblem here since I gave rw permission to everyone just to be safe (for trouble shooting purposes only).
I've tried using the KDE control center to specify the "Sound I/O method" under "Sound -> Sound Server -> Sound I/O (tab)" but only the "Autodetect" option is avaliable ... is this where the problem is?

Is the aRts sound server working?

Thanks for pointing that out.
artsd is not even running ... next I checked it with ldd, and I'm missing an so file:

libaudiofile.so.0 => not found

How should I go about fixing this?

Hurray!

I got it to work!

I had to install "Audio File Library" first <configure, make, make install > . Then I had to change the ownership of the mcop-UserNAme dir. recursevly to UserNAme (that's in the /tmp dir). And that was it

Thanx for steering me in the right direction Aussie

Your welcome