music player in panel
 

does anyone know how to put my music player in a panel?

Could you be more specific? If you mean something like xmms controls on the kde panel, use xmms-kde. Amarok adds an icon to the applet section on it's own.

What player are you using? What desktop environment?

sorry about not being specific enough, I thought it worked the same for all panels.
I want to put xmms on a gnome panel

In that case, you want to install gxmms. Not sure what distribution you are using, so I can't tell you what the actual package name is or where to find it, but you can find the source here.

There are prepagaged binaries for several distributions as well. Good luck.