Ubuntu's multisearch surprise

Posted Aug 8, 2009 2:20 UTC (Sat) by ldarby (guest, #41318)
In reply to: Ubuntu's multisearch surprise by MattPerry
Parent article: Ubuntu's multisearch surprise

I totally agree with all that, and that's partly why I use Slackware almost exclusively. It's the only distro I know of that stays out of my way when it comes to application software (I'm listening to music playing in XMMS 1 and typing this in Opera 10 beta). It also rarely patches upstream, so issues like this and the openssh fiasco just don't happen. If upstream were responsible for something like that, well that would affect all distros anyway.

Also, I subscribed to lwn just for this article :)

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Ubuntu's multisearch surprise

Posted Aug 8, 2009 8:56 UTC (Sat) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link] (7 responses)

xmms1? With what front-end?

It is a program that has been unmaintained for years. It is based on gtk1.2 which is likewise unmaintained.

Ubuntu's multisearch surprise

Posted Aug 8, 2009 9:48 UTC (Sat) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link] (6 responses)

It's a crappy world.

- xmms2: do any of the clients provide me with the traditional winamp/xmms1 interface and skin support?
- audacious 1.x: blatant bug: the whole program is not servicing any X events when waiting to connect to a stream.
- audacious 2.1: the alsa output plugin hangs - playback just sits there at 00:00 - works with OSS. Does not play Internet streams at all. Dude, that's crap.

So, back to xmms1.

Ubuntu's multisearch surprise

Posted Aug 8, 2009 9:51 UTC (Sat) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link] (5 responses)

And, because just bitching is not gonna help, here's what it spouts:

network stream:
** (audacious2:5101): WARNING **: could not open 'http://72.26.204.18:6314', no transport plugin available
Unable to read from http://72.26.204.18:6314, giving up.

alsa:
ERROR: ALSA: alsa-core.c:226 (alsaplug_write_buffer): (write) snd_pcm_recover: Input/output error

Ubuntu's multisearch surprise

Posted Aug 10, 2009 12:25 UTC (Mon) by SEJeff (guest, #51588) [Link] (4 responses)

Perhaps you should file a bug report on the project's bugracker. Because we all know that open source developers look on LWN for bug reports.

Ubuntu's multisearch surprise

Posted Aug 10, 2009 12:30 UTC (Mon) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link] (3 responses)

Perhaps I should. But then I have better things to do and xmms1 is just ready at hand.

Ubuntu's multisearch surprise

Posted Aug 10, 2009 12:36 UTC (Mon) by SEJeff (guest, #51588) [Link] (2 responses)

I was just pointing out that griping about something when you have done _nothing_ to help out the developers helps no one.

Ubuntu's multisearch surprise

Posted Aug 10, 2009 21:34 UTC (Mon) by k8to (guest, #15413) [Link]

It helps me. I can continue to not bother moving away from xmms1, as I have for years. Periodically I check the others, but this thread saved me my yearly attempt.

Ubuntu's multisearch surprise

Posted Aug 10, 2009 22:18 UTC (Mon) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]

FWIW it's reported now.