Rhythmbox: http://www.gnome.org/projects/rhythmbox
Can't recommend it highly enough. The interface does exactly what it should, without all that nonsense common in many mediaplayers of having 10px buttons and wonky metallic-shaded skins. Also has a fast search, and good plugins for things like last.fm, lyrics, visualizations, etc. -Nicholas On 8/5/07, Rob Sherwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, I just did a fresh install of FC7, and found that xmms was not > installed by default. Not a huge worry, yum installed it without > problems, but I still need to hand install the mp3 player plugin b/c > redhat people are winies - but I'm used to all this. > > However, going to www.xmms.org, I find all of these notes to the effect of > many distributions are deprecating xmms: > > --- > XMMS has been removed from the Slackware distribution. > > Thu Mar 15 19:43:10 CDT 2007 > > xap/xmms-1.2.10-i486-3.tgz: XMMS developers: THANK YOU for your years of > dedication. We look forward to considering a new GTK+2 based design some > time in the future. (Package removed). > --- > > WTF? xmms is the bomb.. but apparently doesn't support gtk+2? And > there are no binaries built for anything later then FC1!? > > I've been using xmms since before mp3s came out (true story)... So, the > question is what are all the young wippersnappers using these days? > What is the xmms replacement of choice? > > Thanks in advance, > > - Rob > . > > PS Not that I can't/won't bludgeon xmms into working, but I'm just curious.. >
