Good news for XMMS fans. It's now being re-added again in -Current after one year ago it was removed

It never left MY box.

I am not a fan of audacious.

Thats good to know. I actually missed XMMS. Audacious was ok. I hope that however this version of XMMS has FLAC plugins, already included. The only thing I liked about Audacious was that the console music plugin (NES/SNES/PS2) actually worked, which I could never get to work under XMMS.

I wonder if xmms.org is going to announce a welcome back to Slackware, since when Pat announced that XMMS was being dropped, there was a farewell to Slackware on xmms.org.

I kinda hope that audacious is not dropped however, only due to the fact that I don't know if this version of XMMS will at least have the FLAC plugin already included, but if it also included support for console music that would be great too.

The changelog mentioned the addition of the xmms flac plugin returning to the flac package before the xmms return was announced.

I am glad to see xmms back in slackware. It never left my machine either.

Thats good, but I remember when XMMS was still in Slackware in 11.0 and FLAC plugin wasn't default, so I compiled flac from source as a plugin for XMMS, and it ended up crashing XMMS instead.

Then there is the issue for the console music support (at least for me anyways). I like being able to play NES/SNES and PS1/2 music on my player. I have seen XMMS plugins for such formats, but I never get get anything to work. The plugins would compile just fine, XMMS would see the plugins, but when I tried playing them, nothing.

Mine neither and neither am I.

Yay! I never stopped using XMMS indeed, I used the old buildscripts to compile 1.2.11.

By the way, there was a double size bug which could be solved by

export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1

It was due the composite extension I think. But I don't remember having to wipe .xmms to fix it. Maybe what Pat talks about is a different bug.

Xmms..was cool with the old KDE desktops, but you don't really need more than mpg123/mpg321 The ogg-playing similarity is nice too, but since my portable players only play mp3 or trash, that's more or less useless (for non-portable music I still use cassette/cd-player depending on the age of the music).

Nice to have it back, though. Not that Audacious is bad in my opinion, but it has died on me a few more times than Xmms has

Yeah, i tried this solution and the problem disappear, but the problem is where should this be put on Slackware's system?

We can't expect user to run this all the time (or they can put them in .bash_profile or even in /etc/profile).

This kind of thing should be resolved in upstream's code, IMHO

Well I would imagine that this bug has been reported to the developers of XMMS, and I am sure they are working on a fix hopefully.

and the fix is already on the -Current tree just now:
The credit should go to ilgar, not me though

The lack of shorten (.shn) support in audacious annoys me, but luckily amarok handles those files. I don't have many, but the ones I do have are tapings of concerts that aren't available for sale and I'd rather not encode to a lossy format.

XMMS may not have come with every plugin, but at least they were available and you could play absolutely anything.