Hello Raster, I come from Debian and certainly I understand very well your point. That's why I gave the solution I gave. MPlayer can decode MP3 through some different libraries. The default one is buggy. I simply changed to another one and it works for me and for some other folks. Yes, this other library may be broken at some other cases, that's why I believe this codecs.confchange I suggested should be applied to gutsy and tested. Let it there for let's say 2 weeks. If no one complains about this MP3 issue on gutsy, there you have a working solution to import to feisty. I just believe that hundreds of users losing hours of their lives with things that does not work is a thing that should be avoided. Well, this is very known bug, right? What about use debconf to give all users who install the software a hint about this issue, and that there is no current workarround for it? Of course we are talking of software outside Ubunu's main stream software, but users still use it anyway. Until now, no one pointed why my solution is bad, will break everything at all or some other bad thing. I just think it should be given a try. I think the beauty of FOSS is this kind of argue on how to make things better, and that's what I am trying to do here. I guess I already made my point, there is no need for me to repeat myself in the future. I already have a working system myself, I just want to avoid problems to other people and give them a smoother Ubuntu experience. Thank you for your patient email Raster, sometimes it is good to give this kind of attention. On 8/14/07, Raster