After one of my updates I noticed that Xmms had no mp3 and I could not find it google or the repo's. Isn't this all getting a bit tiresome?. What happened?
Thanks, George Hare
Hello Thats odd I always install the livna repo then yum install xmms-mp3 and then my xmms works fine. - LostSon
On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 15:05 -0400, George Hare wrote:
After one of my updates I noticed that Xmms had no mp3 and I could not find it google or the repo's. Isn't this all getting a bit tiresome?. What happened?
Thanks, George Hare
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:05:24 -0400, George Hare wrote:
After one of my updates I noticed that Xmms had no mp3 and I could not find it google or the repo's. Isn't this all getting a bit tiresome?. What happened?
mp3 support is not included with Fedora for several years. This is explained in Fedora related documentation, and the places where to get add-on packages are not difficult to find. How did you search?
Btw, more and more XMMS users switch to the more actively developed players like Audacious (package "audacious"). You can find extra plugins for it, too. -> http://rpm.livna.org
Michael Schwendt wrote:
Btw, more and more XMMS users switch to the more actively developed players like Audacious (package "audacious"). You can find extra plugins for it, too. -> http://rpm.livna.org
XMMS is simple, and well maintained.
Newer players are a pain, like amarok or audacious. heavy and with so many features that I will never use.
BTW, they too don't have mp3 support, for the same reason.
George Hare wrote:
After one of my updates I noticed that Xmms had no mp3 and I could not find it google or the repo's. Isn't this all getting a bit tiresome?. What happened?
Thanks, George Hare
I'm a little slow catching this thread, but I understand that XMMS development has stopped and there is currently no maintainer. I know that a couple of distros don't ship xmms packages anymore because of that. Is there any reason you want or need xmms? Personally I found that audacious works just as well as xmms and has about the same footprint.
On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:10:14 -0200, Martin Marques wrote:
Michael Schwendt wrote:
Btw, more and more XMMS users switch to the more actively developed players like Audacious (package "audacious"). You can find extra plugins for it, too. -> http://rpm.livna.org
XMMS is simple, and well maintained.
The 1.2.10 release that is in Fedora is from February, 2004. Even during the 1.2 series, development has stalled already and lead to forks like XMMS2, BMP, BMP2, Audacious and so on. Just recently, XMMS 1.2.11 was released. Quote: "1211 days ago we released 1.2.10, so what better day to release 1.2.11?"
Newer players are a pain, like amarok or audacious. heavy and with so many features that I will never use.
Amarok is an entirely different concept.
BTW, they too don't have mp3 support, for the same reason.
audacious-plugins-nonfree-*
Mark Haney mhaney@ercbroadband.org wrote:
I'm a little slow catching this thread, but I understand that XMMS development has stopped and there is currently no maintainer.
There is a maintainer, but there's indeed not much development except some minor bug fixes. XMMS works pretty well to play MP3 files. Small footprint, fast and stable.
Is there any reason you want or need xmms? Personally I found that audacious works just as well as xmms and has about the same footprint.
Audacious started as a promising alternative to XMMS, but especially with a large collection of MP3s you'll notice that it is slower than a moving glacier. And it is somewhat unstable and crashes on some MP3s or ID3 tags. However, Audacious supports a lot of formats and works much better with audio streams (eg, web radio) than XMMS. Personally, I use Audacious for audio streams, but XMMS for local audio files.
Nowadays, Audacious goes the same way as all other players. Most development goes into a cool-looking the user interface, but little into bug fixes and optimization (stability, speed, resources).
As long as Fedora still ships with GTK1 stuff, I stay with XMMS. ;-) Haven't yet decided what to do if XMMS won't compile or gets incompatible with newer kernels, audio subsystems or libraries.
Suggestions welcome! Andreas
Michael Schwendt escribió:
On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:10:14 -0200, Martin Marques wrote:
BTW, they too don't have mp3 support, for the same reason.
audacious-plugins-nonfree-*
And where do you get it from?
I, with livna repo, have this:
$ rpm -qa | grep xmms xmms-arts-0.7.1-6.x86_64 xmms-mp3-1.2.10-16.fc7.x86_64 xmms-libs-1.2.10-36.fc7.x86_64 xmms-1.2.10-36.fc7.x86_64 xmms-skins-1.2.10-15.noarch
:-P
On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 11:33:53 -0200, Martin Marques wrote:
Michael Schwendt escribió:
On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:10:14 -0200, Martin Marques wrote:
BTW, they too don't have mp3 support, for the same reason.
audacious-plugins-nonfree-*
And where do you get it from?
fedora+livna
yum list audacious*
I, with livna repo, have this:
$ rpm -qa | grep xmms xmms-arts-0.7.1-6.x86_64 xmms-mp3-1.2.10-16.fc7.x86_64 xmms-libs-1.2.10-36.fc7.x86_64 xmms-1.2.10-36.fc7.x86_64 xmms-skins-1.2.10-15.noarch
Andreas M. Kirchwitz wrote:
Nowadays, Audacious goes the same way as all other players. Most development goes into a cool-looking the user interface, but little into bug fixes and optimization (stability, speed, resources).
As long as Fedora still ships with GTK1 stuff, I stay with XMMS. ;-) Haven't yet decided what to do if XMMS won't compile or gets incompatible with newer kernels, audio subsystems or libraries.
Suggestions welcome! Andreas
The time may be here, I was looking to install xmms codecs and after finding that fedora fc8 and livna were not playing well with others, went to built from source and found that the xmms.org site is dead. It has been down now for some days, so I think the db.xmms.org machine died and no one cares. Hopefully I can get the source elsewhere, but it's too bad, there doesn't seem to be an alternative application.
There is an xmms rpm from fedora, but it seems doa, it told me it needed illegal codexs for everything, including wav files, ogg, mp3, wma, etc. I guess wav is probably claimed by MSFT, but ogg?
Bill Davidsen wrote:
The time may be here, I was looking to install xmms codecs and after finding that fedora fc8 and livna were not playing well with others, went to built from source and found that the xmms.org site is dead. It has been down now for some days, so I think the db.xmms.org machine died and no one cares. Hopefully I can get the source elsewhere, but it's too bad, there doesn't seem to be an alternative application.
Does someone have info on what's wrong with the xmms.org server?
Martin Marques wrote:
Bill Davidsen wrote:
The time may be here, I was looking to install xmms codecs and after finding that fedora fc8 and livna were not playing well with others, went to built from source and found that the xmms.org site is dead. It has been down now for some days, so I think the db.xmms.org machine died and no one cares. Hopefully I can get the source elsewhere, but it's too bad, there doesn't seem to be an alternative application.
Does someone have info on what's wrong with the xmms.org server?
It appears to be back up.