mpg123 no sound

openSUSE 42.1 KDE 4.14.10

.mp3 files that play normally with mpv or mocp will not produce sound with mpg123…

> mpg123 1*
High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layers 1, 2 and 3
        version 1.22.1; written and copyright by Michael Hipp and others
        free software (LGPL) without any warranty but with best wishes

Playing MPEG stream 1 of 1: 1.Statesboro Blues (At Fillmore East).mp3 ...

MPEG 1.0 layer III, 160 kbit/s, 44100 Hz joint-stereo
Title:   Statesboro Blues                Artist: The Allman Brothers Band
Comment:                                 Album:  At Fillmore East
Year:    1971                            Genre:  Blues
Note: Illegal Audio-MPEG-Header 0x20202020 at offset 5144555.
Note: Trying to resync...
Note: Skipped 1024 bytes in input.

[parse.c:1249] error: Giving up resync after 1024 bytes - your stream is not nice... (maybe increasi
ng resync limit could help).

[mpg123.c:695] error: ...in decoding next frame: Failed to find valid MPEG data within limit on resy
nc. (code 28)

[4:17] Decoding of 1.Statesboro Blues (At Fillmore East).mp3 finished.

…and while the file plays silently I get no results from clicking on application icons. When the playing finishes all the items I clicked on come to life. This is what mpg123 files are installed:-

**#** zypper se mpg123
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...

S | Name                              | Summary                                         | Type       
--+-----------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------+-----------
i | libmpg123-0                       | Realtime Player Library for MPEG Audio Layer -> | package    
  | libmpg123-0-debuginfo             | Debug information for package libmpg123-0       | package    
  | libmpg123-devel                   | Include Files and Libraries mandatory for Dev-> | package    
i | mpg123                            | Realtime Player for MPEG Audio Layer 1, 2, an-> | package    
  | mpg123                            | Realtime Player for MPEG Audio Layer 1, 2, an-> | srcpackage
i | mpg123-all                        | Support for all output plugins in mpg123        | package    
  | mpg123-debuginfo                  | Debug information for package mpg123            | package    
  | mpg123-debugsource                | Debug sources for package mpg123                | package    
  | mpg123-esound                     | Esound GNOME Sound System Daemon Support for -> | package    
  | mpg123-esound-debuginfo           | Debug information for package mpg123-esound     | package    
i | mpg123-jack                       | Jack Support for mpg123                         | package    
  | mpg123-jack-debuginfo             | Debug information for package mpg123-jack       | package    
  | mpg123-nas                        | NAS Support for mpg123                          | package    
  | mpg123-nas-debuginfo              | Debug information for package mpg123-nas        | package    
i | mpg123-portaudio                  | Portaudio Support for mpg123                    | package    
  | mpg123-portaudio-debuginfo        | Debug information for package mpg123-portaudio  | package    
i | mpg123-pulse                      | Pulseaudio Support for mpg123                   | package    
  | mpg123-pulse-debuginfo            | Debug information for package mpg123-pulse      | package    
i | mpg123-sdl                        | SDL Support for mpg123                          | package    
  | mpg123-sdl-debuginfo              | Debug information for package mpg123-sdl        | package    
  | qmmp-plugin-pack-mpg123           | Qmmp plugin which uses libmpg123 for decoding   | package    
  | qmmp-plugin-pack-mpg123-debuginfo | Debug information for package qmmp-plugin-pac-> | package    

Any advice would be appreciated.

Solution found. Formerly (in my 13.2) mpg123 output was going to pulse audio by default. Now it has to be specifically directed as in “mpg123 -o pulse file.mp3”.