From www.xmms.org there is a free, open source-based plugin which enhances the command xmms in Red Hat 8.0 so it can play also such big MP3 files as are provided e.g. by radio stations such as www.voanews.com/horn/amharic_audio.cfm (or others which are produced more locally, this is just an example). The xmms command is rather sparse in comments, but essentially it allows you to open -- point to -- an .mp3 file, and will begin to play automatically if the sound device is Red Hat 8.0 compatible enough (it needn't be a full SoundBlaster 1995 compatibility such as required for most Firth sound routines beyond pure PcSpeaker routines, but it should have the quality of adhering to original cross-platform compatible sound device routines as of Y2000-like standard i386-compatible PCs. This plugin you can also get from my site -- and download it e.g. to a folder called something like /backup3. Open a terminal and then do cd /backup3 unzip goodmp3 rpm -i xmms* and it will give some messages about NOKEY and the like which can be overlooked. Next time you type xmms it will look just as before, but work better. So, here is the name you must type in, after you do something like File->New Window in your browser, and then click on the address field above the title line of the window. www.yoga6d.com/goodmp3.zip This, then, you direct to /backup3 or wherever, and then do what I said just above. This is a backup of a Red Hat 8.0 relevant plugin and I provide several such since some sites suffer from the delusion that a higher version number inevitably provides a better piece of software, and so phase out earlier excellent pieces of software. (For instance, when Microsoft releases a new version, it is really a "worse-ion" of what they before released.) ;) As I usually point out, if you have any questions as to further use of the software, please consult the originating site of this excellent freeware, -- as said, it is www.xmms.org. -- A.T., 9 March 2009 =========================================================== P.S. For the sake of diversity --not to be fanatic but to have some alternative options at an experimentative level, I unzipped the files in experimental_extension.zip to the "c" drive in wine. One gets there by cd /root/.wine/dr* When you have all the fonts installed and wine firefox and such, then you can try something like this to get yet another option -- but it is dependent on a lot of web-browsing and a lot of websites and hopefully it is according to freeware licenses in a respectful manner. This, please, check very carefully, step by step. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: The cabextract comes with a source rpm and is, I think, GNU GPL open source, and all acknowledgements are intact there (cabextra...src.rpm). The majestic, complicated task of the ies4linux is undertaken by this site, which owns the software and yet offers participation and freeware sharing to get wine to work in various ways: www.tatanka.com.br. They also call for donations. It is worth the while specifying how Red Hat 8.0 behaves with this much newer version of their surprising work, for this is not specified there -- and the solution is also not specified there. Here is it: After the unzip of the file, do: rpm -i cabextract-1.2-1.i386.rpm tar -xf ies4linux-2.99.0.tar cd ies4linux-2.99.0 ./ies4linux --no-gui --no-ie6 --install-ie55 --install-corefonts This will tell which command to start the new piece of software freeware from, and note this, but wait until you have copied over the fonts as follows (I presume you have done all the instructions associated with what you get up when you go into the various menues inside BRIDGE2, to get the full-fledged wine firefox running as best it can in this context, with all the fonts). cd /root/.ies4*/ie55/dr*/wi*/fonts cp /root/.wine/dr*/wi*/fonts/* . Here, do not confirm any overwrite questions, but say n to them. Then you can try it. Carefully look into the licenses of every piece of this type of software: this mixture is highly experimentative besides. Will it run the newest forms e.g. amharic in the browser? That is why I tried it; but it seems that certain things made for the newest browsers and platforms as for HTML coding are not calling on these fonts properly; but some pages occasionally have found a way to call on Amharic fonts even within wine firefox. So it is possible to adapt, -- net-site-makers can adapt, to wine firefox. Plugins for this experimentative stuff is not likely to have any particular effect without tweaking it. I doubt it is much point, when you have both mozilla-1.3 and wine firefox running and with all licenses of the open source kind healthily in order and without any question at all. Yet, it is good that so much freeware as this do exist. Keep up the good work!!! WORKAROUND: Some (sometimes blank) popup-screens may bring the viewing of a page to a halt. If so, go to the terminal window where you typed in the command to start the browser, and press CTRL-C. It should normally then exit at once, and allow easy restart again by arrow-up and enter. Carefulness is naturally required that one doesn't go into arbitrary sites -- these browsers in this context is quite open, in many ways, though one might imagine that wine also to some extent acts as a 'filter' in that the .exe file format is not native to the system. But avoid sites which could have virus or malware, and all the more so when using a complicated type of browser like this. Remember that the browser has option to delete cookies and history and cache, and to raise security levels: apply these things often. Do not leave this browser on but exit it when done. ====================================================== ===> if the files referred to in the paragraph just above are outside the range of what should be regarded as respectable high-quality (although experimentative) freeware for Linux, I apologize, and in case, overlook that paragraph. ===> if you try to install an earlier version of Flash rather as you did with wine firefox (perhaps), you might get it to work although I find it personally a relief to not have on all the flashy fancy advertisements all the time.