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[Christopher Kyle Horton <932103@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The theme stuff is most likely due to the 3rd-party icon theme I was
using. That I think can be safely ignored...I was more worried about the
Ubuntu One and plugin stuff it spat out near the bottom.

I would agree that the playback support is one of those things that
should just work as soon as it is installed. Similar to what you said,
you and I would likely try a restart to get the plugin to work like on
Oneiric, but the average user isn't going to think of trying that.
Instead, they'll try playing some music right away thinking they're all
set, then they'll end up being offered plugins of questionable legality
(i.e. US software patent concerns) and either install them when they
don't need to or be scared off/confused by all the cryptic terminology
and packages being shown to them.

Music playback is one of those things most casual users use their
computers for, and 99% of the time their files will be in MP3 format
whether we like it or not. That's why I find it distressing that, at
least in my case, getting this basic functionality set up is horribly
broken. I would sincerely hope I (and others) don't run into it again in
the final LTS release.

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  Cannot install MP3 playback support; silently fails

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