The tool audacious is not able to play mp3 files after updating it to version 1.3.0_rc* (same prob with rc1). Files when selected are not added in the playlist. It looks like audacious-plugins lost the mp3 support, at least the useflag "mp3" is gone. Ogg vorbis files do play nicely. Here is the needed data: emerge -auNDv audacious These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] media-sound/audacious-1.3.0_rc2 [1.2.2] USE="nls -chardet (-gnome%)" 0 kB [ebuild U ] media-plugins/audacious-plugins-1.3.0_rc2 [1.2.5] USE="aac alsa arts nls opengl%* vorbis -adplug% -chardet -esd -flac -jack -lirc -mad% -modplug -musepack -oss -pulseaudio -sid -sndfile -timidity -tta% -wavpack -wma (-mp3%*)" 0 kB emerge --info Portage 2.1.2-r12 (default-linux/x86/2006.1, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.19.3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.19.3 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6400 @ 2.13GHz Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 14:30:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r6 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.23b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.20-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo ftp://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ " LANG="de_DE@euro" LC_ALL="de_DE.utf8" LINGUAS="de" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-* --prune-empty-dirs" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/portage-overlay" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aac acpi alsa apm arts bash-completion bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdinstall cdr cli cracklib crypt css cups dbus divx divx4linux dri dvd dvdr dvdread encode ffmpeg firefox fortran ftp gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 hal iconv icq imagemagick ipv6 isdnlog java javascript jpeg kde kdeenablefinal libg++ lm_sensors matroska midi mmx mp3 mpeg ncurses nls no-seamonkey nocd nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline recode reflection reiserfs samba scanner sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl svg theora truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb v4l vcd videos vorbis win32codecs wmp wxwindows x264 x86 xcomposite xfs xine xinerama xml xorg xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon r300 vesa" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Sorry, my bad, useflags did change, now "mad" has to be used to get mp3 playback capabilities. Though it might be a good idea to activate it as default?