Make sure you have no .x11amp directory in your home directory. Invoke x11amp and select a level 3 mp3 file to play, it will dump core. The problem is that x11amp is not setting itself up correctly with various defaults if no ~/.x11amp/config file exists. So if you start x11amp, and then exit it, x11amp will create a default ~/.x11amp/config file and this problem goes away for all future invocations. The core happens because the mpg123 library is being passed a null pointer for the ip3_format argument in function mpg123.c:eval_id3_format.
seems to have been fixed in 0.9_beta1.1