On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Steve Beitzel wrote: > Hey all, > > Just had to jump in with my $0.02 here -- Winamp is _not_ well > written - it is a complete resource cow! It has many features that are > just plain extraneous and introduce unnecessary overhead. I have trouble > even *playing* mp3s on my family's Win98 box, a P133 with 32MB of RAM, let > alone running something else while listening. X11amp uses less CPU time, > it plays well, and it runs on GNU/Linux systems. Now if it was just open > source...
I believe it is as of 0.9a it is open source (if not free). www.x11amp.org has downloadable source which I grabbed and compiled... worked nicely. It's even closer to winamp than the version before it (even supports winamp 2.0 skins). However I can't get it to work with ESD... but that's ok, I got gqmpeg (which I think is even nicer!). There's such an abundance of mp3 players for linux that I don't think we need to worry about this for a while, I'm quite pleased! -Dano
