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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2024 2:34 am    Post subject: Concerns about XMMS Reply with quote

I'm just NOW starting to see older announcements that many distros feel that XMMS had become too difficult to continue to be offered. Gentoo dropped it about a year ago (October 29, 2024), and Slackware has also given up on XMMS version 1 (March 15, 2024).

So, for now, lets let XMMS be, while the team develops XMMS version 2, and hopefully we won't get addicted to Audacious.....


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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2024 2:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I use rhythmbox Smile



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2024 3:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I also use rhythmbox...but sometimes I just am "in the mood" to use XMMS Razz ...It's still a great player. Sometimes it even plays formats that rhythmbox doesn't (I must not have all the plugins/codecs... Confused )



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2024 9:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I still use xmms. can't recall the version but it suits my needs. Wink



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2024 10:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Beep/BMP and Banshee are pretty good; Totem I'm not a big fan of (primarily a video player) that for me doesn't live up to xine



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2024 10:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I primarily use Amarok, but I used XMMS on my MythTV box in the past. It's got a few quirks that really annoy me with respect to loading playlists, but other than that it's a great player that handles streaming very well.



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2024 12:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I use amarok, and on a live disk my preference is still xmms Very Happy



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2024 1:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'd actually prefer Banshee over rhythmbox. However, on my arch box, it seemed to have a glitch. After it got done playing ANY song in my library, it put a red "do not enter"-looking sign by the song. Then it wouldn't play them again until you restarted it....I searched quite a bit to try and find a fix...but I couldn't.



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 13, 2024 1:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I use BMP. If I were to use KDE, I'd probably use Amarok.



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PostPosted: Sat Sep 15, 2024 1:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

lberg - I think that is DRM kicking in - if I hook up my ipod anything bought from iTunesStore as aac will do that - from what I understand there is no alternative but to buy music elsewhere which is fine by me because I find very little of interest there



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PostPosted: Sat Sep 15, 2024 6:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hmm. I'll have to look at that. Thanks for the tip. Since I have a fresh install of Arch64, I still have quite a few things to tweak before worrying about audio haha...



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