LMS not able to play MP3

[davem]

Can you try Squeezelite 1.6.4 and see if that works? I am using that player, and vaguely remembers MP3 is working on that player.

I did. But no luck. I tried all squeezelite versions and as soon as I tried to play a mp3 it would crash (a red X beside the status) and the player would disappear from iPeng. Nothing in the logs.

Thought that I would try mpd, so installed ncmpc client and played the same mp3. All good.

So it seems that the issue relates to mp3 on squeezelite (& hardware players before I manually installed LAME). Is installing LAME actually the correct thing to have done ?

Edit. Just discovered that I have some .m4a files and they play fine as well...