The update to Fedora 7 installed Rhythmbox. Perhaps it was already installed with Fedora Core 6, but I didn’t use it, and it hadn’t caused me any grief. But in Fedora 7, Rhythmbox registered itself as the default player for mp3 files. That would be fine, except that it won’t actually play mp3 files. It comes up with a window that says that no music was found.
I’m not sure which player I was using before, though I know it had some pieces installed from FreshRPMs, since Fedora can’t ship any MP3 player or encoder due to patents. That’s fine, but then the Fedora music applications like Rhythmbox shouldn’t register for the “mp3 extension”.
Filed in Red Hat Bugzilla as bug 242579