Ubuntu's multisearch surprise

Posted Aug 8, 2009 8:56 UTC (Sat) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501)
In reply to: Ubuntu's multisearch surprise by ldarby
Parent article: Ubuntu's multisearch surprise

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.

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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.