Well, i don't know who did this ebuild, but volnorm got installed in the wrong dir and xmms couldn't even find it. Fixed that.
Created attachment 2088 [details] xmms-volnorm-0.4.1-r1.ebuild [update]
where is the plugin installed for you?
well the old one installed it in /usr/lib/xmms/Plugins, while it should be in /usr/lib/xmms/Effect. Plugins doesn't get searched (afaik), cause it's no category.
sorry I took so long with this foser. updated in portage.