[gNewSense-users] MP3s xmms2 -uhh?

[David Carpenter]

Hi I really hope this is not a stupid question...

Why CAN I play mp3's in my gNewSense?

I thought this was not possible. 

When I got my gNewSense I wanted to install xmms, but not seeing it in
the repository I went for xmms2 with 'esperanza' via Synaptic a while
ago - I guess esperanza would have required xmms2 at the time, but I
forget. Today I accidentally asked it to play an old mp3 file that was
lying around and it did it!

I see that there is a 
xmms2-plugin-mad

that is installed. This is a 'libmad based mp3 decoder'

I'm pretty sure I didn't expressly include it - although I may have
done.

Should this be happening? Sorry, this isn't an offer to help, but I just
don't know where to start investigating this.

All the best
David