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Introducing the XMMS2 Media Player

Posted May 26, 2005 19:17 UTC (Thu) by bronson (subscriber, #4806)
Parent article: Introducing the XMMS2 Media Player

XMMS2 has been factored into download components, decode components, play components... Sounds a bit like an audio-only gstreamer doesn't it? Why not use it? It is a really nice lib even though Rhythmbox and Muine both stink.

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> rhythmbox stinks

Posted May 26, 2005 21:50 UTC (Thu) by brettlevin (guest, #29117) [Link]

I've heard this from a few people. Care to elaborate?

My experience: the version that comes with Ubuntu 5.04 crashes trying to import the dir where my iTunes collection lives. Otherwise it seems like a reasonable basic iTunes clone.

Introducing the XMMS2 Media Player

Posted May 26, 2005 21:50 UTC (Thu) by tru (guest, #30161) [Link]

We considered gstreamer as our playing framework, but it was rejected for several reasons.

The biggest reason was proabably our diffrent design goals. We wanted a small, agile *MUSIC* player while gstreamer aims to be general *MULTIMEDIA* playing framework.

Introducing the XMMS2 Media Player

Posted May 27, 2005 0:58 UTC (Fri) by njhurst (guest, #6022) [Link]

Can you expand on what this means? To me it seems that greater results would come from you spending your time making a really good client for gstreamer, and solving those few problems that make gstreamer currently unsuitable. Otherwise I suspect history will pass you by and stay with gstreamer. I feel personally that the moment I have a good general purpose player like totem, with the music selection options of xmms, it will be game over for any other client.