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Gentoo is an OS that lets you install anything you want which is great, |
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but I ran across a problem with this today because of the lack of a |
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description on an xmms pluggin. Here is a link to a forum that has a |
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good description of the problem. |
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http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&postid=1603918#post1603918 |
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My problem was that I've never installed xmms and have it NOT be able to |
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play .pls files on the web before. Therefore I had NO CLUE which |
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pluggin gave me this support. I also found that there was no webpage |
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anywhere that even describes what mpg123 does. Since this pluggin is |
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installed by default on just about every mainstream distro known to man, |
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there were NO reports of the error that I was getting. The error report |
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said I was missing a pluggin, but it didnt say which, and therefore I |
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was left out in the cold to try to find the right one. So, I started |
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looking through the portage files with anything that had xmms in the |
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descrpition/name and I came up with nothing. I then resorted to looking |
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on google for my error and I got SUPER lucky with 1 single hit, and had |
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it not been for this guys post just 2 weeks ago, I'd have been racking |
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my head with this problem for weeks. |
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Long story short, the xmms-mp123 plugin description needs to be updated |
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to something other than "Xmms Plugin: xmms-mpg123". Thats a pretty |
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useless description if you ask me. I noticed that almost all of the |
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xmms plugins were the same way except a few. Most dont need a |
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description since the filenames pretty much give it away, but this one |
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was an exception. mpg123 has nothing to do with .pls playlist files. I |
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consider this a minor Gentoo flaw than anything else. |
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I would have never figured this out on my own in a million years. Who |
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would have thought that adding a file called mpg123 would allow you to |
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play .pls files? Anyone? Am I just plain stupid or does this make any |
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sense at all? It was playing mp3's just fine that I had on my HD, but |
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it wouldnt play the .pls files until I installed the mpg123 plugin. |
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I dont know who the maintainer for this plugin is (I didnt want to send |
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out 10 emails to the people in the changelog either) so here I am. |
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BTW, Gentoo is by far the best Linux distro once it's installed. |
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Getting it installed would be a nightmare for any new linux user, but |
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after that, it's got everything you could imagine in the portage files |
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which is a real nice feature. I didnt think that having porthole being |
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marked as masked was very good though. It's a great app for searching |
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the portage dir without having to be online or use command line. I'm |
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still trying to figure out easier ways to unmask things. Right now, the |
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syntax for it is horrid. |
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Other than that, I'm quite happy with my conversion from Mandrake to |
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Gentoo experience. I've been using linux now for about 9 years (the |
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last 6 months of that as my desktop, the rest as a server platform). I |
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see Linux being a viable desktop OS that has 30-40% of the market share |
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in less than 4 years and from all the distro's I've tried, Gentoo has |
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been the best Desktop viable linux simply because of portage compared to |
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any of the other binary based pkg systems. |
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