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Old 09-05-2005, 06:09 PM   #1
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Using Winamp with Wine?


Does this work for anyone? I've installed wine and downloaded winamp and installed that through wine, but every time I start up Winamp, I get something about installing an ActiveX controller. I click yes, but it doesent seem to do anything. It runs, but when I try to open up a URL (http://www.digitallyimported.com/mp3/chillout.pls for example) it doesent seem to play anything. My sound is working, and I can play the stream with Totem. :/
 
Old 09-05-2005, 06:26 PM   #2
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I better use XMMS on linux than winamp, which is more fit on Windows.

Something great about XMMS is its support of winamp's skins (old 2.x winamp)

anyhow I've never tried to run the "new" 5.x winamp thru Wine
 
Old 09-05-2005, 06:40 PM   #3
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I appreciate the sugestion. I'll look into XMMS if I can't get Winamp working through Wine.
 
Old 09-05-2005, 06:50 PM   #4
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It comes with Slackware, should be in the 'Multimedia' tab in the KDE menu. Hope you've installed it.

if it isn't (which isn't that uncommon), try to run it thru a konsole or with 'run command'

you shall be amazed off how much XMMS looks like winamp (usability and all)

I use a lil' program called 'outpost' for the global hotkeys function with XMMS

peace
 
Old 09-05-2005, 06:55 PM   #5
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Can I run it in Gnome? Because thats what I'm currently using.
 
Old 09-05-2005, 06:57 PM   #6
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don't know for sure. I stopped using Gnome a lot time ago.

My guess is yes, most likely from a konsole
 
Old 09-05-2005, 08:11 PM   #7
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XMMS will happily run in Gnome, though I recommend it's fork, Beep Media Player (doesn't come with Slack though), which uses the GTK2 tool kit and IMHO looks much better than XMMS.
 
Old 09-05-2005, 08:32 PM   #8
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BMP - Beep Media Player comes with Dropline GNOME.
If you are a gnome user, you might want to consider Dropline GNOME.

But be warned though, it makes some changes. For eg. in my case, I have to do an alsaconf alsaconf everytime I startup the system. There may be other changes I have not observed (yet).
 
Old 09-05-2005, 08:55 PM   #9
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beep seemed a little slow to me when I tried it. with the scrolling and the pop up dialogs.
 
Old 09-06-2005, 12:31 AM   #10
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Beep is a fork of XMMS. I think the interface is a little more intuitive than XMMS. Beep is easy to compile from scratch and I think linuxpackages has a Slackware package. I do not have to run alsaconf as thick_guy_9 does though.

Thick_guy_9 might want to try going through the preferences in beep:
plugins>output and select alsa.
 
Old 09-06-2005, 12:31 AM   #11
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I have run Winamp 5.x on WINE in Slackware, but it doesn't run very well.

You have to use the Classic Skin, and the Media Library doesn't work. Between those two losses, Winamp became pretty unappealing to me.

It is a shame, since XMMS, while a good clone of Winamp 2.x, doesn't even touch Winamp 5.x in terms of functionality.
 
Old 09-06-2005, 03:37 PM   #12
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I've found XMMS in kde, and I can start XMMS in Gnome by running XMMS in a konsole, but when right click>add URL> (URL for stream) it doesent seem to do anything. What the heck am I doing wrong? Am I missing something obvious?
 
Old 09-06-2005, 04:58 PM   #13
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Quote:
Originally posted by thick_guy_9
BMP - Beep Media Player comes with Dropline GNOME.
If you are a gnome user, you might want to consider Dropline GNOME.

But be warned though, it makes some changes. For eg. in my case, I have to do an alsaconf alsaconf everytime I startup the system. There may be other changes I have not observed (yet).
Hmm. I've never seen this before. We don't include any ALSA changes, but perhaps you could send a private message to me if you are interested in discovering why "aslaconf" is required on startup. I'd like to figure out why this is happening and make sure that other users aren't experiencing this.
 
Old 09-06-2005, 05:58 PM   #14
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I got winamp 2.95 running ok except for one thing: the library will not open at all. Pity because this is the main reason I wanted winamp - for the streaming radio and TV...
 
Old 09-06-2005, 07:21 PM   #15
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Quote:
I've found XMMS in kde, and I can start XMMS in Gnome by running XMMS in a konsole, but when right click>add URL> (URL for stream) it doesent seem to do anything. What the heck am I doing wrong? Am I missing something obvious?
To stream media (.pls or .m3u) browse to the link and click on it. Most of the time Mozilla and Firefox will ask you want to do "Open with" or "save".

Select "Open with" then either enter xmms or browse to /usr/bin/xmms. If you are using beep make the change to /usr/bin/beep-media-player. If it works you can make it the default by checking the box next time you start streaming.

The other option is to install streamtuner which will pass the link to xmms (default).

Note: For all you non-Slackers using Redhat and Fedora mp3 steaming is not provided in the basic install but can be added.
 
  


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