__/ [Kier] on Friday 18 November 2005 17:42 \__
> On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 17:16:37 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> __/ [Kier] on Friday 18 November 2005 13:07 \__
>>
>>> On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 00:51:03 -0700, Tom Shelton wrote:
>>>
>>>> This is a really, really nice media player. Simple, fairly stylish
>>>> interface with an awful lot of functionality. It even plays my .wma
>>>> files,
>>>> since I can have it use xine as the playback engine... The only
>>>> complaint I have so far, is that I can't add *.wma to my collection.
>>>
>>> I do like amaroK a lot, too, though I tend to use Xmms more often,
>>> because I listen to a lot of Shoutcast stuff, and I totally agree its a
>>> terrific media player and organiser. A great app with a bright future.
>>
>> It is my favourite KDE application at the moment. I love so many of its
>> album management features, but I just wish it was slightly more stable. I
>> still use XMMS at work, but it requires quite a bit of manual handling of
>> playlists or occasional "Jump to track". After AmaroK, XMMS just seems
>> like a waste of time and a significant step back. I raised that as an is-
>> sue in the XMMS users mailing list recently and it is still unknown when
>> XMMS 2 will come out. With Amarok, it sometimes feels like XMMS betrayal.
>
> It's a pity Xmms has remained static for so long. I suppose I have tended
> to keep using it partly because it's very similar the older versions of
> Winamp, which I very much liked, and because you can get some great
> visualisations for it. But amaroK has surpassed it in so many ways now.
> It's a shame, because Xmms is still a solid app.
...Seems to have been lively (in terms of development) until 2001 or so.
That's what their Web site appears to indicate.
> It does appear to have had its best days, though. Even the skins you can
> get for it, nice though they are, are seldom new. Maybe the ex-Winamp
> bloke should join forces with the Xmms developers :-)
There were talks about Winamp for Linux. That was roughly 6 months ago
and, if I recall correctly, I failed to see traces of evidence in
winamp.com.
I sure hope that something gets done on the issue. On the brighter side of
things, AmaroK makes good (re-)use of XMMS plug-ins, visualisation in par-
ticular. In that sense, maybe it can be considered a successor? It has
merely all XMMS features and, in that sense, it is its superset. Since it
has an XMMS-styled player (even mentions that explicitly), which does not
have to be bound to the playlist component, it is like XMMS, only extend-
ed.
Roy
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