Greg Kettmann wrote:
>
> Unrelated but I'd love to hear comments. I was trying to show off MP3's
> under Linux instead of Windows. Windows get's all flaky if anything else is
> going on and I assumed Linux, like OS/2, could handle it fine.
Ohh yeah, linux handles it very nicely.
> I tried to
> install the latest XMMS but it fails because there is an earlier version
> installed.
Hmm, I just got the latest XMMS the other day. I hit one problem during install,
but removing the offending old packages cleared it up for me (ie rpm -e). Of
course this assumes RPM, if you installed XMMS via sources, I believe there is
a 'make uninstall', that is, if you still have the sources around...
If you are using GNOME/Enlightenment you may also want to get the ESD
plugin. It lets XMMS play sounds through ESD.
> I couldn't find a WinAmp for Linux although I thought it
> existed.
WinAmp changed it's name to XMMS.
> Can I double click on an MP3, like I can in Winblows, and have it run?
Yes. On Redhat 6.1 the default MP3 player is mpg123 (a nice command line
player). You can change it via MIME Types (I think). This is
assuming GNOME and GMC. I'm really not sure what KDE will do.
> Can I drag a bunch of MP3's to the application and have them all load?
Dragging MP3's from GMC to XMMS works flawlessly.
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