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On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 05:21 -0700, Robin H. Johnson wrote: |
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> The last time this came up, a few months ago, mentioned in somebodies |
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> blog, I made an effort to look at both bmpx and audacious. |
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> Both used significantly more CPU, and one of them was completely |
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> unusable with the size of my playlist (~24000 items, mostly legal MP3) - |
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> it sucked up ~4Gb of memory, and then the OOM killer smote it. |
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The audio player i use these days is banshee and sometimes muine. Yes |
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that's true they eat too much mem compared to xmms. |
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> The plugins I used are xosd, songchange, realrandom - none of which |
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> seemed to be trivially recompilable when I looked, but I do see that at |
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> least one other distro has managed to port xosd. |
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We can port it too. |
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> One thing that XMMS does have going for it compared to the newer GTK2 |
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> variants is that it's much more light-weight. I'm not sure if it's just |
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> because of the usage of GTK2 instead of GTK1, but the added size of the |
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> alternatives isn't suitable for the moment. |
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Yes but you need to remember that GTK1 is not supported by upstream |
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anymore. |
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> As noted by other folk, I have no objections with the default changing |
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> away from xmms, to discourage new users, but don't take XMMS away from |
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> those of us already using it without any issues. |
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Yes discourage new users is the way and move the current users to |
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another player is necessary too. We can move xmms for overlays with no |
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support from us or maybe anyone else take it apart from sound herd. |
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