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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, 2025), and Slackware has also given up on XMMS version 1 (March 15, 2025).
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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| Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2025 10:23 am Post subject: |
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| 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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| 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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| 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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| I use BMP. If I were to use KDE, I'd probably use Amarok.
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| 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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| Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2025 6:29 pm Post subject: |
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| 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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...It's still a great player. Sometimes it even plays formats that rhythmbox doesn't (I must not have all the plugins/codecs... 
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