xxms into universe?

[Timo Aaltonen]

On Tue, 15 May 2007, Reinhard Tartler wrote:

> Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at ubuntu.com> writes:
>>
>> Sounds good to me, although totally dropping xmms should still be
>> considered if it is really that unmaintained and vulnerable. We have
>> one or two other music players in the archive after all...
>
> I just want to note that I have the feeling that despite its dependency
> on gtk1, xmms is still a very popular music player. One reason for its
> popularity is that it has the exact look and feel like the winamp 2.x
> player, a very very popular music player from the windows world. Heck,
> it even can use the same themes like winamp 2.x.
>
> Having said this, I think it would be sad to loose xmms completely.
> Let's try to keep it in universe.

replace it with audacious:

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


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