Re: [opensuse] Re: future of xmms

2007-10-03 Thread Mike McMullin
On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 12:13 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Oct 3 2007 06:05, Mike McMullin wrote: > >On Tue, 2007-02-10 at 18:26 -0400, Sergey Mkrtchyan wrote: > >> > >> Actually I've been using xmms from the very beginning of my using > >> Linux(couple of years probably, started with 9.3), but

Re: [opensuse] Re: future of xmms

2007-10-03 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 3 2007 06:05, Mike McMullin wrote: >On Tue, 2007-02-10 at 18:26 -0400, Sergey Mkrtchyan wrote: >> >> Actually I've been using xmms from the very beginning of my using >> Linux(couple of years probably, started with 9.3), but now I've switched >> to Amarok, and I really find it very comfort

Re: [opensuse] Re: future of xmms

2007-10-03 Thread Mike McMullin
On Tue, 2007-02-10 at 18:26 -0400, Sergey Mkrtchyan wrote: > Jonathan Arnold wrote: > > Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > > > Boy, there sure are a lot of media players for Linux. I use Amarok and > > Banshee. Has anyone ever done a big comparison of the various ones? > > > > Actually I've been using xm

Re: [opensuse] Re: future of xmms

2007-10-03 Thread Sylvester Lykkehus
Sunny wrote: On 10/2/07, Jonathan Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The one and only reason for that, is, that with xmms I can use the keyboard to "seek" forward and backwards while the song is playing. So if I have to practice a small difficult section of a song I can just tap the left-arrow ke

Re: [opensuse] Re: future of xmms

2007-10-02 Thread Sergey Mkrtchyan
Jonathan Arnold wrote: > Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > Boy, there sure are a lot of media players for Linux. I use Amarok and > Banshee. Has anyone ever done a big comparison of the various ones? > Actually I've been using xmms from the very beginning of my using Linux(couple of years probably, star

[opensuse] Re: future of xmms

2007-10-02 Thread Jonathan Arnold
Jonathan Wilson wrote: > What is the alternative to xmms? As my disk collapsed I was intending > installing 10.3 asap; just wondering what else will be lost. >>> Boy, there sure are a lot of media players for Linux. I use Amarok and >>> Banshee. Has anyone ever done a big comparison of the

Re: [opensuse] Re: future of xmms

2007-10-02 Thread Sunny
On 10/2/07, Jonathan Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The one and only reason for that, is, that with xmms I can use the keyboard > to "seek" forward and backwards while the song is playing. So if I have to > practice a small difficult section of a song I can just tap the left-arrow > key and he

Re: [opensuse] Re: future of xmms

2007-10-02 Thread Jonathan Wilson
> >>> What is the alternative to xmms? As my disk collapsed I was intending > >>> installing 10.3 asap; just wondering what else will be lost. > > > > Boy, there sure are a lot of media players for Linux. I use Amarok and > > Banshee. Has anyone ever done a big comparison of the various ones? > >

Re: [opensuse] Re: future of xmms

2007-09-27 Thread Sloan
Jonathan Arnold wrote: > Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >> On Sep 27 2007 09:13, jpff wrote: >> >>> What is the alternative to xmms? As my disk collapsed I was intending >>> installing 10.3 asap; just wondering what else will be lost. >>> >> packman still has xmms (well, at least in 10.2)

[opensuse] Re: future of xmms

2007-09-27 Thread Jonathan Arnold
Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Sep 27 2007 09:13, jpff wrote: >> What is the alternative to xmms? As my disk collapsed I was intending >> installing 10.3 asap; just wondering what else will be lost. > > packman still has xmms (well, at least in 10.2) -- and otherwise > resort to mplayer ;-) Boy, the