xxms into universe?

[David Walker]

Timo Aaltonen wrote:
> On Tue, 15 May 2007, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
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>   
>> 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:
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> http://audacious-media-player.org/Main_Page
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I was going to say, last night when I started reading this I was 
shocked, and started looking for my XMMS replacement.  I tried 
RhythmBox, BeepMediaPlayer, BeepMediaPlayer2 (BMPx), and Audacious (or 
beepmediaplayer) and really, none hold a candle.  They just have a 
different feel that just isn't as fast or something.  I really like XMMS 
and likewise would be sad to see it go.

--
Dave