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Using Winamp vis. Plugins with xmms
protonman writes "...and you thought emulation was for watching quicktime trailers, playing nintendo games, or just running calc.exe. Think again,
Please welcome Winamp Visualization Plugins for XMMS, available now!"
Where would you get MFC42.dll?
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What would be really cool is an XMMS input plugin that can decode WMAs. I don't ever encode music in the WMA format, but I do encounter it on the net quite a bit and it's a pain in the ass to have to go WMA -> Wav -> MP3 for every single one.
I know that this is a GTK1.2 limitation, not an xmms limitation, but xmms fails the polish test when it comes to file browsing by extension, and the entire file-browse function in general. (I guess all gtk apps - except the gimp, which has its own file browser - suffer from this, but I don't feel the pain in the other apps as much because masking my file browsing isn't as important to me in anything other than mp3 browsing.) It's what keeps it behind winamp.
I've used XMMS, yes. I use both Windows and Linux regularly. If the Linux version of Winamp3 is anything like the Windows version, it will be far better than XMMS. I'm not saying that XMMS will be BAD...just that I don't think it will perform as well as Winamp3.
-James
I do love my XMMS, but...
mpg123 may support lowend PCs, but XMMS has the biggest selection of plugins of any GPL MP3 player. e.g., this plugin for that remote.
We all have doorstops, ahem... older computers, that could be headless mp3 servers, great gifts, eco "Reuse me baby!" friendly, and even RULE Project consistent.
So where is the full command line and no-GUI version of XMMS?
xmms-shell [dead link] was a great start at the command line part. It has very detailed input and output of status, settings and more from the command-line. XMMS-control provides a web gui for XMMS via xmms-shell. XMMS project should encorporate a command line that elegantly handles ALL GUI commands and info displayed.
Removing the GUI, and adding full/powerful command line, would support many recipes for mp3 server.
My recipe for a server would have a headless box, wirelessly connected to the Home Entertainment Center via DVD Anywhere with remote for song skipping. Samba Server for LAN users to play music, and create playlists. A web gui for XMMS, particularly for selecting playlists (auto-converted from LAN users playlists to local). Command line also creates opportunity for a TV style GUI, to properly handle TV-out videocard, that DVD Anywhere can send to the TV!
Ideally an integrated XMMS command line would seemlessly handle multiple instances of XMMS and multiple sound cards, and dynamic reassignment of sound cards to a particular XMMS instance, for powerful whole house sound system with as many zones as sound cards on the MP3 server. e.g., play same song in every zone/room in the house at the start of the party such as Stones "Start me up", later break out the living room zone to another XMMS instance running dance music playlist, and patio to jazz. Later, reunify the all the sound cards/rooms/zones to the XMMS instance playing Jazz.
-Nathaniel
nice feature.. despite all the bitching...
If you dont want the module, dont install it... I i never was big into the visualization stuff...
one plugin that i'd cream over is something to allow xmms to use mplayer as the back-end for all media files. xmms has a nice clean interface (thanks to winamp) and mplayer plays almost every format out there (and i'm sure real support will be cleaner soon and sorenson will be added)
a tad off-topic --- does anyone else have trouble playing rm files in mplayer CVS? -- It dies after about a minute and 9 seconds on all rm files.. and the sync is off HORRIBLY
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