I believe audacious (http://audacious-media-player.org) is the intended
replacement of xmms. I've been using it so far, and it's nice. Pretty much
like xmms, except with gtk2 support.

On 8/5/07, Justin Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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..
>

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