[SWLUG] XMMS Playing Up

[Peter Prior]

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Gareth Rees wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I was wondering if anyone has had any trouble with XMMS and the Alsa
> output.
> 
> I'm running XMMS 1.2.10 and every now and again it cuts out from
> playing. hmm so annoying - i then have to press play or skip tracks for
> it to kick in again.
> 
> I mailed there list and no luck. looking at there bugs saw a few and one
> was about gaim running and interupting but not giving messages back. so
> i quit gaim and started using centericq to see, with in the first 5 mins
> it did the same!
> 
> phantomjinx said to try diffrent software to see if it was hardware, so
> i have been running Rythmbox for the last hour and its working fine.
> although i don't really like it because it doesn't read my id3 tags and
> i prefer something nice and compact like XMMS.
> 
> I am running Fedora Core 4, has anyone had any similar problems like
> this? (or even know of a similar app like XMMS) this is really starting
> to bug me.
> 
> Many thanks
> Gareth x
> Lil G
> 
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