>I can run both kaboodle and noatun in R14. Both play .wav, .mp3 
>and .ogg files
>fine. I do NOT like the way noatun stays resident in systray. I 
>prefer kaboodle
>for a one-shot play of a music file.

What about videos in kaboodle?

I am discovering that some user accounts can open both apps but 
some accounts can't. On the accounts that I can open both, I can 
get both to play audio files, but I can't get kaboodle to play 
video files. Just hangs.

>Check to make sure you have the needed codecs installed.

The apps work in 3.5.13.2 so I don't think that is the problem. 
Even if that was the problem, I'd expect the apps do just do 
nothing rather than freeze and hang. I also would expect some spew 
in the xsession-error log but there is nothing. I build all of my 
packages with debugging enabled.

Deleting rc files makes no difference.

Darrell