Mark Haney <mhaney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm a little slow catching this thread, but I understand that XMMS > development has stopped and there is currently no maintainer. There is a maintainer, but there's indeed not much development except some minor bug fixes. XMMS works pretty well to play MP3 files. Small footprint, fast and stable. > Is there any reason you want or need xmms? Personally I found > that audacious works just as well as xmms and has about the same footprint. Audacious started as a promising alternative to XMMS, but especially with a large collection of MP3s you'll notice that it is slower than a moving glacier. And it is somewhat unstable and crashes on some MP3s or ID3 tags. However, Audacious supports a lot of formats and works much better with audio streams (eg, web radio) than XMMS. Personally, I use Audacious for audio streams, but XMMS for local audio files. Nowadays, Audacious goes the same way as all other players. Most development goes into a cool-looking the user interface, but little into bug fixes and optimization (stability, speed, resources). As long as Fedora still ships with GTK1 stuff, I stay with XMMS. ;-) Haven't yet decided what to do if XMMS won't compile or gets incompatible with newer kernels, audio subsystems or libraries. Suggestions welcome! Andreas
