Hi! > Did anyone else experience something similar?
Unfortunately yes. I ran into the same effects you did: xmms is just fine, ogg under kde is, only mp3 under kde is not. It's like an additional rythm, very disturbing. But I encountered a few other disturbing effects: Some files sound very noisy, others sound like if you played them with one of these horrible "volume enlagers" (which produce horrible sound in loud parts of the track). I have no arts-effects enabled and all these files played well with KDE 3.1.5 under (Beyond) Linux From Scratch. System: Debian Sarge Package: libarts1-mpeglib Version: 4:3.2.2-1 cu Hape Schaal