Re: [gentoo-user] alternatives to audacious?

[darren kirby]

quoth the Denis:
> I'll have a look at Amarok.  Was XMMS removed for licensing issues?

No. It's because the code is old and unmaintained. If I had the skill I would 
pick it up myself, but sadly I don't know what the heck I'm doing with it...I 
am very surprised that someone has not done this as there seems to be a lot 
of "take xmms out of my cold dead hands" sort of folks out there.

I am in the same boat as you, I tried audacious as a replacement but it just 
wasn't working for me. I have many playlists with 1000+ songs on them, and 
audacious seems to choke on them. When it doesn't outright crash the 
interface freezes when I scroll the playlist and it reads the id3 tags. Makes 
it all but unusable for me. 

Amarok isn't my cup of tea either. I wrote my own scripts to organize my 
music, and create playlists, and amarok seems to want to organize my tunes 
for me. Ugh. To be fair I have not delved too deeply into all the options. 
Perhaps there is a way to turn it into an xmms/audacious clone. 

Perhaps xmms2 (which moves to a client/server approach) may have a similar 
lightweight client to the old xmms. Running a server to simply play tunes 
does seem like overkill to me though... 

I'll likely get shouted down for this, but when they removed xmms from the 
tree I simply deleted xmms and related packages from my world file without 
actually uninstalling them. You can get away with this with emerge, but not 
paludis.

So: I still use xmms, but it will be a version frozen in time for all 
eternity. Sigh.

-d
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