* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Feb 19 09:08 -0600]:
> On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 09:27:37AM -0500, Curt Howland wrote:
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> > Alex Nordstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I think our ideas of what constitutes a production system are
> > > somewhat different.
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> > Indeed, a "production" system running Sid? [*shudder*]
> >
> > Back on topic, I agree with Steef about XMMS. I use it myself and
> > would feel a lack if it were no longer packaged. I'm sorry to hear
> > that development has faltered. I haven't seen any better music
> > player, even if it doesn't do absolutely every format or stream.
> > There's always XINE and vlc for those rare circumstances.
> >
> > Curt-
>
> Don't panic just yet. Apparently the upstream developers have stopped
> working on xmms to develop xmms2. The death of xmms has been much
> exaggerated.
True, but 1.2.10 was released right about two years ago and so far
XMMS2 is at developer release 0.2 and does not yet appear in Sid. It
may not be dead, but it seems to have one foot in the grave and the
other on a banana peel. ;-)
Mind you, I'm not griping. BMP performs well for me and I've tried
Audacious with equally good results. I just want a lightweight
skinable player in the vein of the Classic Winamp and BMP and Audacious
do that nicely for me. It just seems to be a duplication of effort for
the XMMS project (and its offshoots) to be like Mplayer, Kaffeine, or
VLC. There is a need for a heavyweight player and most times a
lightweight player is all that is needed. Thanks to the GPL work can
continue by motivated developers on an older and functional codebase
even though the original developers feel the need to move on.
- Nate >>
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