XMMS is equipped with output plugin for arts audio subsystem. Unfortunately, when arts is used with NAS (network audio system) support, the v0.4 plugin is somewhet buggy. Sound is jerky and XMMS consumes more and more CPU power during playback. (starting at 0.1% on the begining of the song, ending at about 10%).
There are two workarounds: 1) use OSS output plugin (less elegant) 2) include NAS output plugin for XMMS (available) http://www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/old/gentoo-x86-distro/\ gentoo-1.0_rc4/packages/snapshots/i686/media-sound/\ xmms-nas-0.2.tbz2 there is probably some better place to download it... Regards, -- grok
