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

[Xander D Harkness]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:

>On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 08:36:47AM +0000, Xander D Harkness wrote:
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>>Does anyone else think that this is strange, replacing xmms with 
>>rythmbox would to me be the equivalent of replacing vi with Open Office:
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>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.
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>>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=64069
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>>xmms I am hearing might be removed from Core in a future release
>>because it is being replaced by newer software like rhythmbox. 
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>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.
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I can see why the removal makes sense; however I have not come across 
any realistic replacements.  Freeamp still seems to be beta quality, 
none of the kde multimedia stuff has ever been usable.  What I do like 
about xmms is that it is small.  rhythmbox takes up a lot of screen area 
for no usable functionality, it is much slower to load and navigation is 
poor.

>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.
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That is very exciting indeed, it maybe that totem becomes the default 
media player as I think that it has much that is needed, the ability to 
have a small descrete playlist and is reasonably fast to load.

Kind regards
Xander

>Dan.
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>[1] Of course this is predicated on Rythmbox having comparable 
>    functionality and stability. 
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Yes I did read this and that is a concern :-)
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