[Gllug] xmms - Bug 64069] while playing mp3s or ogg files the player will stop and report could not open audio

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 08:36:47AM +0000, Xander D Harkness wrote:
> Does anyone else think that this is strange, replacing xmms with 
> rythmbox would to me be the equivalent of replacing vi with Open Office:

I'm not sure that's a fair comparison. XMMS is no 'vi' - vi is fast
and lean with no bells & whistles - it just gets the job done. Not 
something that could be said for XMMS. Rythmbox is actually quite
a good design, since it doesn't try to do everything itself - it
delegates all the actual audio processing to GStreamer APIs, and
concentrates on just the user interaction.

> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=64069
> 
> xmms I am hearing might be removed from Core in a future release
> because it is being replaced by newer software like rhythmbox. 

It makes perfect sense if you consider the work being done on getting
a usable and consistent UI since RHL 8.0 introduced BlueCurve. In
common with faaaar too many other multimedia players, XMMS, choose 
to inflict a horrific eye-candy UI on users whose operation bears no
resemblance to any other program on the system. It pains me every
time I've had to use XMMS and if it's out in favour of something
with a quality GNOME/GTK UI like Rythmbox[1], then good riddance.

With native UI provided by Galeon / Epiphany using the Gecko rendering
engine we've finally got rid of the pain Mozilla inflicted on web UIs, 
and with Open Office gaining a native GNOME UI too, there is almost 
a consistent UI across all the primary desktop applications.

Dan.

[1] Of course this is predicated on Rythmbox having comparable 
    functionality and stability. 
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