Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Andrew MacKenzie <amackenz@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] alternatives to audacious?
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 21:50:33
Message-Id: 20070604214052.GH15658@edespot.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] alternatives to audacious? by Denis
1 +++ Denis [gentoo-user] [Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 05:26:09PM -0400]:
2 > I'll have a look at Amarok. Was XMMS removed for licensing issues?
3 XMMS was removed due to it being no longer maintained I believe.
4
5 I was also a huge XMMS fan and switched to Audacious. But it's so slow and
6 buggy that I've converted to Amarok.
7
8 Amarok is *not* an XMMS replacement though and fanbois suggesting it to
9 ex-xmms users should note that (it's like suggesting a hummer to somebody
10 looking for a compact).
11
12 --
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