Hi

I'm an average linux user and am quite familiar with the commandlines and basic installation norms. Presently, i'm fixing issues with Wine with Winamp combination. This is what happens, My winamp is loading without any problems, playing music without any issue, but just the appearances isn't showing properly.

Secondly, is Wine (top-left hand corner) appearing what it should be?

The screenshot explains a thousand words.
http://www.wearel337.com/2.jpg

I think it's the skin's fault.
BTW, there are media players for Linux that are far better than Winamp.
amaroK - The best music player.
xine - The best video and streaming media player.
Kaffeine - The golden middle road of the above.

xmms is a winamp clone...practyically.Even has winamp default theme plus allows winamp type skins and if Im not mistaken takes plugins similar to winamp if not better.

XMMS is pretty slow. Does anyone experience this other than me? I'm using FC3 on a Athlon2400+, 512MB RAM, ATIRADEON9500.

It takes like almost 1 second to stop the song then play the next song. (its a 1second responsive thingy bug?)

and XMMS does not have Media Library which i'm looking for like Sonique. Any idea does the above mentioned players have media library functions?

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What output are you using for music? I know that with arts you will have to wait a moment or so, I use ALSA plugin and it works just as well if not better then Winamp.

xmms is based on gtk1 which is crap. Try beep-media-player, it's a gtk2 port of xmms, xmms plugins will compile for it and everything and it supports all the same skins etc.

Will have to check it out and compare....thanks




As for xmms being slow...not at all.Never have I had to wait for songs after clicking etc.
I use alsa and its quite superb sounding.As for visual plugins and skins I can careless....i always have it minimised and controle it through gkrellm.
I dont use too many plugins......could be one reason its fast.I also dont use kde or genome...blah!

hmm... if i were to select alsa in my kde, i would get this error.
its only slow in the changing of songs (don't know whether is it due to any inbuilt song fades in arts?) when i install winamp on wine, it switches very fast.

Yea, xmms never gives me problems. I wonder why it has been so long since the last release. are they in need of a new developer?

In your prefrences I bet you have a 2 second delay set for between songs, that was set by default on mine.

Just use amaroK...

oook, that screenshot looks pretty good... i'm not that experienced, heck, i never even installed wine, but i think you all know what winamp looks like in XP when it hangs... like a normal window: titlebar + the rest... just that it's... skinned over, and it's own titlebar is a bit smaller that the one WinXP "assigns" it. my guess on this is that wine doesn't show winamp's WinXP titlebar, which includes its own titlebar and a little of the rest... of the main window that is. if wine has options that manipulate this sort of stuff, i'd suggest you fiddle around with them. but quite frankly, if you can get it to work like in windows, why bother with small glitches like this?

Go to www.oldversion.com and download an earlier copy of Winamp and see if that works. Just keep going backwords from 5.08 till one works.

Can you use amaroK without using KDE? It looks really nice, but I don't want to sue KDE.