23 May
2024
23 May
'24
6:03 p.m.
On Thursday 23 May 2024 02:34:22 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users wrote:
IMO the last really good player for music was XMMS and
XINE for video. Both
have passed away (XMMS2 is a PITA, VLC is working when stripped to bare
minimum). But it seams stretched to install a FreeBSD VM to use XMMS :)
Kaffeinw works on my system (devuan ceres), but you might need to tweak the
order of audio devices.
Nik
There are still some legacy xmms packages that I discovered online, and
actually, that old xmms still works great.
I would be worried about security for online use. Also, as I recall, whenever
I tried to install new packages, I would be forced to uninstall xmms, then if
I wanted to keep using it, to reinstall with dpkg.
This seemed rather pointless, to go through that endless loop of installation
uninstallation > reinstallation of the same
packages, just to be able to
use a legacy media player. Besides, audacious, once I
got used to it, and
customized to my own tastes, has worked very well.
However, if there happens to be anybody out there who wishes to try out the
old xmms again (just because), here are some links:
http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~knuta/xmms/
https://web.archive.org/web/20210429053638/http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~knuta/xm…
https://visihow.com/Install_XMMS_on_Ubuntu_10.04
https://web.archive.org/web/20210411123226/https://visihow.com/Install_XMMS…
http://www.xmms.org/download.php
https://web.archive.org/web/20211124050240/http://www.xmms.org/download.php
Archived pages included, just in case of dead links.
Also, of course, xmms could be install from source packages, in which case, it
wouldn't get uninstalled by apt or aptitude.
Bill