Playing MP3 in CentOS 5.4 (or RHEL 5)

Among several apps available for playing MP3 in Linux xmms works for me.

I add Dag Wieers rpmforge repository with:

rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.5.1-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

Then:

yum install xmms xmms-skins xmms-mp3

There was a problem in that the doublesize option didn't work correctly but this has been fixed with the latest update (1:1.2.10-14.el5.rf).

To enable mp3 in totem and rhythmbox (and for Sound Juicer CD ripping to mp3) you can do:

yum -y install gstreamer-plugins-bad
yum -y install gstreamer-plugins-ugly

These also come from rpmforge. Voila!