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Sonique To Come To Linux

Posted by Hemos on from the yet-another-player dept.

chrisbolt writes: "Check this out ... according to DMusic, the FAQ for the next version of Sonique says Sonique 2 will run on Linux! On top of that it will run on BeOS and MacOS, making it the most cross-platform mp3 player available." I'm still in love with XMMS, but have been playing around with other players recently -- and I've heard good stuff about Sonique.

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  1. "Ported to Linux"? by pen · · Score: 4
    I've seen my share of "we're porting it to Linux" press releases, claims, and announcements. Does anyone know what this generally means? What libc libraries, X libraries, KDE, Gnome, MS-Linux-Extensions, what? Is there some sort of "standard" configuration that one should have so that most of these ports will work? The latest version of RedHat at the time, perhaps?

    It seems to me that one of Linux's strong points, its wide array of choices and openness, also happens to be one of its weak points at the same time. Please note, that I'm not trying to say that Linux sucks, or even anything remotely resembling that.

    What I want to ask is: Does anyone have any ideas on how to get rid of the bad aspects of that quality, while preserving its good aspects?

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  2. Clarification by Cuthalion · · Score: 4
    Note: I am a coder at sonique. (proof)

    Let me clarify this a bit..
    1. Sonique2 is extremely portable and modular.
    2. We have had linux and BeOS versions compiling and running in the past. I think it's been a month or two since the BeOS version worked.
    3. We're not even going to try to support MacOS versions prior to MacOS X. Hell, the memory management isn't even thread-safe in MacOS 9!
    4. The linux version does not rely on libwine or anything dumb like that. Since we're doing all the Window stuff ourselves pretty much (except for the final blit to the screen) keeping things portable isn't so bad.

    Given our current user base, obviously the main development work happens on Windows boxes. However, we are all committed to portability.

    Oh, and WRT opening the source: We'd like to, but don't own the IP (when Lycos bought Sonique, well that made them own it.) so that question is not ours to decide. :(
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