Due some patent issues, playing mp3 requires installing some extra packages. Ubuntu 'Dapper' needs them, you need to install the gstreamer-0.10 plugins.

# apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-plugins-good gstreamer0.10-plugins-base gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse

Does the trick.

BTW. GNOME 2.13.91, runs better, faster and smoother. Quite impressive.

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