[PLUG] Getting a red Hat system to play audio files

[Michael Hopcroft]

Red hat 9 has one glaring weakness. the deliberately disabled MP3
support, making their audio player virtually useless. Worse, the video
player (which is supposed to have MP3 support) that I just downloaded
not only won;t play MP3 files (it starts the files but no sound comes
out) but it won't play the audio track on my video files. Is there
something in the Red Hat system that blocks out those audio standards
from ALL pieces of software, or is there some RPM or code I can install
that would re-enable MP3 and audio?

Before anyone asks, Red Hat did test the sound card successfully.