quoth the Denis: > I'll have a look at Amarok. Was XMMS removed for licensing issues?
No. It's because the code is old and unmaintained. If I had the skill I would pick it up myself, but sadly I don't know what the heck I'm doing with it...I am very surprised that someone has not done this as there seems to be a lot of "take xmms out of my cold dead hands" sort of folks out there. I am in the same boat as you, I tried audacious as a replacement but it just wasn't working for me. I have many playlists with 1000+ songs on them, and audacious seems to choke on them. When it doesn't outright crash the interface freezes when I scroll the playlist and it reads the id3 tags. Makes it all but unusable for me. Amarok isn't my cup of tea either. I wrote my own scripts to organize my music, and create playlists, and amarok seems to want to organize my tunes for me. Ugh. To be fair I have not delved too deeply into all the options. Perhaps there is a way to turn it into an xmms/audacious clone. Perhaps xmms2 (which moves to a client/server approach) may have a similar lightweight client to the old xmms. Running a server to simply play tunes does seem like overkill to me though... I'll likely get shouted down for this, but when they removed xmms from the tree I simply deleted xmms and related packages from my world file without actually uninstalling them. You can get away with this with emerge, but not paludis. So: I still use xmms, but it will be a version frozen in time for all eternity. Sigh. -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
