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On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 21:30:20 +0100 Luis Medinas <metalgod@g.o> wrote: |
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> We have a few alternatives like audacious, gstreamer based players |
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> and xine-lib players (did i forget anything ?). The problem is that |
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> So i'm asking for a solution either remove xmms, move the maintainer |
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> for anyone who volunteer or the sound herd. My plans now is replace |
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> xmms for xmms2 (that i would like to take the |
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> maintainership). Opinions ? Ideas ? |
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Just pure user point of view: I search for alternatives and closest |
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that I found in amd64 stable portage tree is audacious. But it have |
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less functionality than xmms (even than xmms_with_bugs). |
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Most missing is gapless output, so when playing continuous tracks |
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I get ugly spaces between them, brr. Other missing is very usefull |
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xosd support and great xmms-pipe (which does not work for me |
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currently, I reported it yesterday - this was probably last drop for |
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you Luis :-( ) so xmms can be widely controlled by external commands. |
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This is disadvantages that I have remembered now. I'm sure I'll find |
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others in the future (as always when swithching software). Also there |
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are for sure more, that affect other users. |
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In general, after removing xmms we, users, only get less |
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functionality. Notthing will be better. So it sounds not logical to |
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remove functional, widely used piece of software which is better (even |
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with current bugs) then alternatives. |
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Kind regards |
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Robert |
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Robert Cernansky |
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E-mail: hslists2@××××××.sk |
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Jabber: HS@××××××.sk |
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