What is the alternative to xmms? As my disk collapsed I was intending installing 10.3 asap; just wondering what else will be lost. ==John ffitch -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Thursday, 27. September 2007, Sylvester Lykkehus wrote:

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What is the alternative to xmms? As my disk collapsed I was intending installing 10.3 asap; just wondering what else will be lost. ==John ffitch

As pointed out earlier in this exact thread, try Audacious http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2007-09/msg01706.html

If you insist on continuing to use xmms, the GNOME1 repo is created (also from this thread): http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2007-09/msg01701.html

Best regards Sylvester

I changed for Audacious, it indeed replaces xmms very well. Thierry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Jan Engelhardt wrote:

On Sep 27 2007 09:13, jpff wrote:

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What is the alternative to xmms? As my disk collapsed I was intending installing 10.3 asap; just wondering what else will be lost.

packman still has xmms (well, at least in 10.2) -- and otherwise resort to mplayer ;-)

Boy, there sure are a lot of media players for Linux. I use Amarok and Banshee. Has anyone ever done a big comparison of the various ones? -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) Linux Brain Dump - Linux Notes, HOWTOs and Tutorials: http://www.linuxbraindump.org Daemon Dancing in the Dark, an Open OS weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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What is the alternative to xmms? As my disk collapsed I was intending installing 10.3 asap; just wondering what else will be lost.

Boy, there sure are a lot of media players for Linux. I use Amarok and Banshee. Has anyone ever done a big comparison of the various ones?

Probably not recently - I also like kaffeine (kde front end to xine)

I'm a musician and have used xmms for years for practice (I play along with various recordings). Crazy as it sounds, I actually use Amarox for media management (I like it, it's a cross between iTunes (a little too rigid) and xmms playlists (a little too loose). I then drag and drop the files I want to practice with into xmms. The one and only reason for that, is, that with xmms I can use the keyboard to "seek" forward and backwards while the song is playing. So if I have to practice a small difficult section of a song I can just tap the left-arrow key and hear it again. I can't do that in Amarok, even in the little player window, which is disappointing. However, this thread got me to looking for a replacement, and I've found "KPlayer" which fills that need for me. So I guess I just moved from xmms to KPlayer :-) -- ---------------------- System Administrator - Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com http://jwadmin.blogspot.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Sunny wrote:

On 10/2/07, Jonathan Wilson wrote:

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The one and only reason for that, is, that with xmms I can use the keyboard to "seek" forward and backwards while the song is playing. So if I have to practice a small difficult section of a song I can just tap the left-arrow key and hear it again. I can't do that in Amarok, even in the little player window, which is disappointing.

The first hit in google for "xmms replacement" is this one: http://gentoo-wiki.com/Xmms_replacement

The conclusion is audacios - especially the author of the article says it can be navigated with the cursor keys (a little bit not satisfying for him, but ...)

Cheers

Another interesting project is qmmp http://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/index_en.html Audacious would be my choice, if it worked properly :p I have some serious issues with both 1.3.x and the latest 1.4 versions. 2 that bugs me the most: 1. When load all my music, and save a playlist, on the next startup of audacious, the playlist is lost (discarded) due to a parsing error in their playlist parser. They are working on that one. 2. The window of audacious is "sticky" on my system. I've tried several different window managers etc, but it does not help. "Sticky" in the sense, that when i move around the main window, then release the mouse button, the window still follows the cursor, for the same amount of time as the original move took. Best regards Sylvester -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Jonathan Arnold wrote:

Jan Engelhardt wrote:

Boy, there sure are a lot of media players for Linux. I use Amarok and Banshee. Has anyone ever done a big comparison of the various ones?

Actually I've been using xmms from the very beginning of my using Linux(couple of years probably, started with 9.3), but now I've switched to Amarok, and I really find it very comfortable. It has global hotkeys stuff, which I find very useful, so you can control it without actually switching to it's window. It has couple of other features (cover manager, collections and context, etc) which I really like more and more... -- Sergey Mkrtchyan, PhD Student @ Department of Physics & Astronomy, Faculty of Science, University of Waterloo -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Oct 3 2007 06:05, Mike McMullin wrote:

On Tue, 2007-02-10 at 18:26 -0400, Sergey Mkrtchyan wrote:

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Actually I've been using xmms from the very beginning of my using Linux(couple of years probably, started with 9.3), but now I've switched to Amarok, and I really find it very comfortable. It has global hotkeys stuff, which I find very useful, so you can control it without actually switching to it's window. It has couple of other features (cover manager, collections and context, etc) which I really like more and more...

And it seems no way to set the usb-headset as your sound out device, only speakers. :(

no way in xmms or no way in amarok? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Mon, 2007-24-09 at 07:19 -0400, Jorge Fábregas wrote:

On Monday 24 September 2007 5:53 am, eddie wrote:

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I do prefer it as a simple alternative for the all-embracing media players of one type or another.

Try Audacious: a fork of another fork of xmms. It's under current development. It's what I've been using for the last year. Give it a try!

http://audacious-media-player.org/Main_Page

Nice. I like the output plugin control that allows me to switch the hardware over to my USB headset. I find that too many sounds apps make you go hunting for a way to do it, and then disappoint you. Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org