xmms alternatives

Goatdemon · 08-16-2002, 12:07 AM

im looking to try a new mp3 player, just to play the field. im particularly looking for something with a media library like music match has. i dont want any mmjb for linux recommendations, it uses wine and it's very slow. id like a linux native app. what do you guys/gurus use? oh... and ladies also.

Ztyx · 08-16-2002, 04:13 AM

If you're looking for an alternative other than xmms you might try "MusicMatch Jukebox".

Personally I use xmms. It works great for me.

MasterC · 08-16-2002, 04:15 AM

Well I use mp3blaster, it's console, but not command line. It uses ncurses to display a nice command gui. Very fast, and good. There is also freeamp which, from it's name I deduce (pretty good of me

) is a winamp clone. If you are truly a bad dude, you could give mpg123 a try.

Cool

zelgadis · 08-16-2002, 11:06 PM

I'm tired of need to use the mouse to hear my mp3s, so i switched to console based players.

Currently i'm using cplay, "a curses front end for various audio players"
fast, logical key mappings (at least to me), can read-write playlist, a pleasure to use,
only missing the ability to read id3 tags:

http://www.tf.hut.fi/~flu/cplay/

Another good console player is playmp3list, can display id3 tags but cannot read-write playlists
(at least at the time i use it).

http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~urban/projects/playmp3list/

Thymox · 08-17-2002, 08:03 PM

Just to let you know, FreeAmp has now changed names (don't ask why) and is now called Zinf (Zinf Is Not [b]F]/b]reeamp). Oh, and I read somewhere (could probably find it on Goggle) about an 'app' that lets you play music on a remote machine, by way of an 'internet interface' (php based browser menu system, to you and I). Just thought I'd drop that in aswell.

fool_inteligent · 08-18-2002, 03:58 PM

now winamp3 is available for linux
http://download.nullsoft.com/winamp/...amp-0.a1-1.tgz
no need of any other.

Thymox · 08-18-2002, 06:41 PM

Does anyone know whether the plugins for WA3 will work regardless of which OS WA3 is running on? That'd be great if it did!

Goatdemon · 08-18-2002, 08:02 PM

does winamp3 use wine?

Thymox · 08-18-2002, 08:14 PM

AFAIK, Nope. I tried Linux-WA3b a while ago and it worked (sort of) without anything to do with Wine on the machine. However, I found that the Win-WA3b ran much better (under Wine) than the Linux-WA3b version did (at the time).

mavness · 08-19-2002, 12:17 AM

i downloaded and ran winamp3 but my screen flashes a black box on it, then unloads the program with no errors....any ideas?

MasterC · 08-19-2002, 12:55 AM

How did you load it? And how did you install it? Is it the winbloze version and you are using wine, or is it the Linux version?

mavness · 08-19-2002, 09:30 AM

the linux version..it loads 3 black boxes, which is the winamp windows, i know because ive used it in windows...but then they close and it goes to the command propmpt...

Thymox · 08-19-2002, 01:39 PM

Personally, I'd prefer it if a plug-in for XMMS was written so that you could use WA plugins. You can already use (most) WA skins, plugins would just be the icing on the cake!

fool_inteligent · 08-19-2002, 03:44 PM

you can run the versions of winamp like 2.78 on linux with wine but not winamp 3.
the link i have posted is the link of linux version not windows.