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.. >
