[nylug-talk] xmms or ?

[Larry Dukhovny]

Kevin Mark wrote:
> Debian is debating removing xmms and its plug-ins because it depends
> upon gtk1.2 and is dead upstream. But others says there is no good
> replacement. Is it worth it to find some tortured soul to migrate xmms
> to gtk2 or similar toolkits or is there something out there that can
> replace it? Is xmms not in other distros?

XMMS has been gone from Gentoo for a while now.

The media player that most resembles XMMS is Audacious. It uses GTK2, 
but it's not as rock-solid as XMMS used to be. I don't use it anymore 
though because the developers are jerks.

There are a lot of other options out there depending on the approach you 
want to take to your music. There is MPD with a client/server model, and 
iTunes style players like Rhythmbox and Amarok. I chose Amarok and I'm 
pretty happy with it, even though it's pretty KDE heavy.

-Viza