xxms into universe?

[Sam Morris]

On Tue, 15 May 2007 09:53:37 +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:

> Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at ubuntu.com> writes:
>>
>> Sounds good to me, although totally dropping xmms should still be
>> considered if it is really that unmaintained and vulnerable. We have
>> one or two other music players in the archive after all...
> 
> I just want to note that I have the feeling that despite its dependency
> on gtk1, xmms is still a very popular music player. One reason for its
> popularity is that it has the exact look and feel like the winamp 2.x
> player, a very very popular music player from the windows world. Heck,
> it even can use the same themes like winamp 2.x.
> 
> Having said this, I think it would be sad to loose xmms completely.
> Let's try to keep it in universe.

Has anyone considered replacing it with 'audacious'? It sets out to be a 
simple fork of Xmms and a port to GTK+ 2.0. It doesn't go down the road 
of implenting a media library like XMMS2 and Beep Media Player (BMPx) 
have done.

At least, that was how it looked when last I used it. :)

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