If you are looking for something leaner, like XMMS, I suggest beep or Songbird. Rhythmbox is all right, but if you are going for something that involved, I would suggest banshee, I find it to be more intuitive and user-friendly. I consider Rhythmbox and Banshee to be iTunes replacements, rather than Winamp replacements (like XMMS and BMP). Songbird is somewhere in the middle.
http://beep-media-player.org/ http://www.songbirdnest.com/ (Still in beta, but works fine in Ubuntu 7.04 and RHEL 4 for me) http://banshee-project.org/index.php/Main_Page - Hope that helps. As always, you'll need the appropriate gstreamer package to actually decode mp3's - Justin Walker -----Original Message----- From: UM Linux User's Group [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Sherwood Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 4:27 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [UM-LINUX] Old man looks for mp3 playing software 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..
