xxms into universe?

Wed May 16 08:58:10 BST 2007

* Reinhard Tartler 

| I just want to note that I have the feeling that despite its dependency
| on gtk1, xmms is still a very popular music player.

FWIW, from http://popcon.ubuntu.com/by_vote

#rank name                            inst  vote   old recent no-files (maintainer)
393   totem-gstreamer                54800 24890 24188  5715     7 (Sebastien Bacher)
442   rhythmbox                      73024 20448 40593 11975     8 (Loic Minier)
712   amarok                         27596 11896 11056  4641     3 (Adeodato SimÃ³)
713   amarok-xine                    27391 11884 10853  4640    14 (Adeodato SimÃ³)
817   xmms                           25075  8751 10117  6205     2 (Josip Rodin)
1241  banshee                         7901  2158  3012  2729     2 (Unknown)
1597  audacious                       2349  1094   624   631     0 (Unknown)
2133  quodlibet                       1805   527   882   396     0 (Unknown)
2722  bmpx                             793   292   300   201     0 (Unknown)

So while xmms certainly isn't the most popular player, it's quite
popular with those who use alternative media players.

(Apologies to whoever's favourite music player isn't on the list, I
just made a small selection.)

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Tollef Fog Heen
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are