> Yes, audacious is closest replacement that I found in stable amd64 > tree. It has same philosophy as xmms. > > But it missing several features. For me it is mainly gapless output, > xosd support and wide posibilites to control it via command line > (like xmms-pipe). Consider also tons of plugins for xmms. > > I have emerged audacious to watch its development but I will stay > with xmms as long as it will be possible.
Me too. I use mpg321 to play music files on my harddrive. I don't need no steenkin gui for that. mc is a great file-browser that can run in a true text console or an xterm. I have it set up to launch mpg321 when I press <ENTER> on an mp3 file. I have one other need for an audioplayer. I'm a paying subscriber of Live365, and I need a simple audio player to launch and play streams direct off a .pls file. audacious falls flat on its face in this task. The current version (1.1.2-r1) does *NOT* support mp3, or streaming mp3. It requires a plugin package. The plugin package is keyword masked ~x86. After unmasking the plugin package, I find that it requires a higher version of audacious, which is also keyword masked ~x86. Etc, etc., etc. Version 1.1.0 still supports mp3 directly, so I've package-masked ">media-sound/audacious-1.1.0". But wait... there's more... on at least one Live365 station, audacious plays at half speed, and the singer's voice is way down low. xmms handles that station fine. I tried RealPlayer. Unlike xmms and audacious, it can't keep up with a 96 kbps audio stream, stuttering and buffering all the time. This is on an AMDK8 3000+ with 2 gigs of RAM, running Blackbox, not some underpowered machine running a resource-hogging "desktop environment". -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and security at http://techsec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
