On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 11:04:52PM +0100, Michal R. Hoffmann wrote: > On 19/06/08 22:34, Mark Allums wrote: >> Ivan Glushkov wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > I have a sid x64 installed. I am wandering why there is no possibility >> > to install xmms? >> > >> >> If I understand correctly, xmms is no longer considered stable or >> reliable; it has no maintainer, and has been abandoned by the upstream >> maintainer. So, people using it need to transition to something else. >> I'm sure someone will correct me if I am wrong. > > I would recommend Audacious. Previously I used winamp on Windows and > xmms on Linux. Audacious is very similar in 'feel', very sleek and does > the job. Plays mp3, mpc, ogg, flac, possibly many more :) Install > plugins package as well.
just to jump in... I recommend mpd with some kind of front end. I find it just the thing: small, and out of the way. It's just a music player daemon (hence the name). You can control it with a number of different cli and graphical front ends. I like mpc, a cli frontend. You issue commands like `mpc play` or `mpc next` etc. Makes it easy to script or bind to WM keys. .02 A
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