On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 10:17:40PM +0100, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > (2) bmp > I don't care one iota about bmp. The fact that it can only output > sound by way of esd suggests that it is dead. Presumably xmms's > sndio backend could be adapted for bmp, but I won't lift a pinky > for that. If people want to remove bmp, I won't stand in the way.
I tried to remove bmp some time ago and IIRC someone objected. > (3) "Why don't you just use audacious?" > I've finally given audacious a try and, yes, it does what xmms does. > (It can even play AAC streams, the one thing I vaguely miss in xmms.) > It also has vastly move expensive dependencies. I don't know how > well it runs on a slow machine, but you certainly don't want to > have to build gtk+3 there. (off topic) I don't use audacious for my everyday player, but it does have the ability to play vgm files. It actually emulates FM and PSG chips found in old micros and consoles. Pretty sweet. -- Best Regards Edd Barrett http://www.theunixzoo.co.uk
