[CentOS] XMMS on CentOS 5

Andreas Micklei andreas.micklei at ivistar.de
Wed Sep 26 08:20:26 UTC 2007


Am Mittwoch, 26. September 2007 schrieb jarmo:
> Paul kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika keskiviikko, 26. syyskuuta 2007
>
> 05:35):
> > Fedora does not have it anymore in core ... it got shoved off to extras.
> > Other distros have dropped it also as it's gotten so out of date with
> > requirements for old libs.
> >
> > I XMMS was a favorite of mine as I was an old WINAMP user, but I finally
> > gave up and use Totem or Rhythmbox instead.
> >
> > Paul
>
> I have installed XMMS to centos 5 and it's working fine...
> For nostalgy or some other reasons... Totem and Rythm... Per-
> sonally don't like... Amarok yes, but as long XMMS works,
> using that...

You might want to try audacious. It looks and feels a lot like XMMS or WinAmp, 
very different from Totem, Rhythmbox or Amarok. It uses modern libs and is 
actively maintained. It is the perfect XMMS drop-in replacement. It's in 
Fedora, and I think RPMs for CentOS/RHEL are in DAG.

regards,
Andreas Micklei

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