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Recommended players list
« on: January 12, 2009, 04:38:12 »

The 'regularly updated list of Recommended Players List' (that sentence has an unnecessary 'list' in it here) has information on it which is no longer relevant, or indeed correct, about XMMS.

XMMS has ceased development. There exists XMMS2, which is not a Winamp lookalike, but which has a client/server architecture and lots of different front-ends. The Linux media player most like the old XMMS is Audacious, which was forked from the BMP project before that turned into BMPx. Audacious still has libmodplug etc. support, though. So too does Amarok, Nautilus (the GNOME filebrowser, through Totem, I think), Banshee, Exaile, and Rhythmbox. As far as I know, they all make use of the same plugin for mod playback -- libmodplug.

I thought I should bring this up, because anyone looking to play mods under Linux would get confused by this (particularly given the fact that XMMS2 is most often not a standard package, and requires clients to be separately installed -- not particularly apparent for novices).
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Re: Recommended players list
« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2009, 18:53:27 »

Thanks barry, forgot that page was actually still referenced. I bought it up to date simply by deleting the XMMS stuff, as I haven't the time to write up more info.
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Re: Recommended players list
« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2009, 19:39:31 »

Maybe you, barry, could try to write a spot-on text? :) I guess you have the best knowledge about linux players here.
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« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2009, 20:58:54 »

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Re: Recommended players list
« Reply #4 on: January 12, 2009, 23:55:07 »

@m0d: That's fine. TBH, I think that XMPlay would probably run quite happily under WINE. (If I have time later today, I might test, actually).

@Jojo: Dunno about that. :/ When I listen to mods, it's actually mostly in OpenMPT, in Windows. :)

Edit: Yup, XMPlay works beautifully under WINE. Just as easy to install and use as in Windows, in fact. :)

Edit 2: Except that closing the main window just makes it disappear, and inaccessible. Hooray for 'kill'!
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Re: Recommended players list
« Reply #5 on: January 13, 2009, 15:04:13 »

XMPlay runs fine? O_o It didn't really work in any of the previous versions due to problems with the Z-buffer.
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Re: Recommended players list
« Reply #6 on: January 14, 2009, 00:04:27 »

Well, I fired it up, loaded up a couple of tracks (taken from m0d's Orgasmod listings, actually) and played 'em. Sounded ok to me! :)
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« Reply #7 on: January 14, 2009, 14:04:54 »

Well, "sounded ok" yes, but also "looked ok"? Especially with different skins? :D Gotta try it after the exams...
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