Whither XMMS? [SOLVED]

nuke · n00b Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 30

I just emerge sync'ed, and now all xmms are hard masked. Is this intentional? Is there something nearly equivalent that I should be using instead because it's a lot better?

nuke · n00b Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 30

Ah, just merged again, and the latest package.mask says, 'use audacious instead'. So I'll give it a whirl.

stupidkid · Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 1:35 am Post subject:

Audacious doesn't seem to have as many plugins as xmms does. Or are all those features built in? Is there something like the xmms-status-plugin for Audacious?
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jannemann · n00b Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 32 Location: Germany

No, doesn't seem so. I just test-emerged audacious, and I like it. Allthough I don't really see any big differences for my use ... just playing music. But I need an alarm plugin like xmms-alarm, and there's none for audacious. At the audacious forums a guy started a port for an alarm plugin, but his last message is from may. Additionally I have a nice working lirc setup for xmms and I'm too lazy to configure it for audacious (never change a running audio player?

). So I want to keep using xmms ...

And there's the problem: doing an emerge -Duvan world shows me quite a big list of packages that want to be recompiled because of the new use flag "-xmms". I unmasked xmms and added "xmms" to my make.conf, but portage seems to ignore that. What's the problem with xmms at all? Why is it masked? package.mask only says:

Insanity5902 · Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 3:02 am Post subject:

Just FYI for you and everyone else that stumbles upon this thread. If you had xmms set in your use flags, then, go ahead and remove xmms form your use flags if you explicitly set them, Run

evoweiss

Hi all,

I tried doing an emerge -uDp world this morning and got the following error.

kfiaciarka · Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 6:44 am Post subject:

hehe:) I think everylthing you need to know was written

media-plugins/xmms-mpg123-1.2.10-r1 is not masked whereas xmms is

You can copy xmms ebuild to overlay and then change keywords in ebuild or unmask it in pakcage.keywords

SHY · Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 6:52 am Post subject:

does it make any difference if i use amarok and now its been recompiled without xmms USE flag?

and3k · n00b Joined: 12 May 2006 Posts: 32

i stopped using xmms a while ago, because amarok is just better

but anyhow, i used audacious for a while too, but xmms was just better, the interface is more like original winamp und not quite so unstable ...

any word out there why xmms should be replaced by audacious, or Diego Pettenò <flameeyes@gentoo.org> just hates xmms?

somewhere i read that there is a totaly new version of xmms in develeopment, that is more like mpd ..?

geekounet · Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 7:14 am Post subject:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/41635/focus=41635
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/43518/focus=43518

Audacious is quite the same, and Amarok is just the best anyway

evoweiss · Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 7:29 am Post subject:

nxsty · Veteran Joined: 23 Jun 2004 Posts: 1556 Location: .se

You probably need to unmask more xmms stuff, check the entry in package.mask. Or even better; unmerge xmms and use something else.

evoweiss · Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 7:39 am Post subject:

and3k · n00b Joined: 12 May 2006 Posts: 32

thx!

btw:

kfiaciarka · Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 7:54 am Post subject:

post

nxsty · Veteran Joined: 23 Jun 2004 Posts: 1556 Location: .se

evoweiss · Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:09 am Post subject:

Hi,

It's very long as it goes through all the minor xmms packages, but if I just stick to media-sound/xmms I get:

evoweiss · Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:13 am Post subject:

Yuck... all of that looks nasty. I guess I'll have to reluctantly change media players. What would be the closest thing to xmms?

Best,

Alex

kfiaciarka · Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:45 am Post subject:

syouth · Apprentice Joined: 18 Sep 2004 Posts: 275

You should take a look at this errormessage at your first post. It says:

derverstand · Guru Joined: 15 Dec 2005 Posts: 511 Location: /dev/null

Hi,

(1) Why is xmms masked? I'm using xmms (with infopipe) since more than 5 years now - without any problems. So what is the reason for masking these packages?
(2) Is this somehow correlated to the fact, that I'm upset after every "emerge --sync"???

My fvwm configuration depends on xmms. After breaking my Xorg (with i910) you are now breaking my whole X configuration. Why??

Best regards.

Kaste · Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 9:27 am Post subject:

A little surprising, but hey If the energy goes towards something more worthwhile I'm all for it. Maybe they even get amarok back on track, 1.4 has been a neverending bug nightmare for me.

Evildad · Guru Joined: 15 Apr 2004 Posts: 475

You can look here
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/41635/focus=41635
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/43518/focus=43518

and here
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-509880-highlight-xmms.html
and here
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-509819-highlight-xmms.html

I think broken Upstream is the main issue.

Dominique_71 · Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 10:13 am Post subject:

It is a xmms2 ebuild on bugzilla. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93583, but xmms2 is still experimental at this time.

Another possibility will be to put xmms in an overlay, but I don't know if someone (debian maybe?) made some fixes for the bugs. The future of xmms is xmms2, and xmms don't have unique feature. If you look at the alsaplayer, it have an unique feature: a very good speed control that have a very simple API (much better as the xmms-speed plugin). Debian made some bug fixes for it. The shame is at they are even not incorporated in the cvs tree of alsaplayer at sourceforge because the admin of the project just don't care of linux anymore.

EDIT: I just see at I have been approved as new admin for the alsaplayer project, so we can soon espect a new bug fixes release with the debian fixes.
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ahurst · Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 10:25 am Post subject:

Gentlemen,
particularly xmms maintainer:

I went round the loop of trying out alternative media players several times, including once in the last couple of months. I did not find anything which I preferred to XMMS for the following reasons:
- smallest code footprint (including dependency gtk1 !)
- least number of random 'alternative media lib' package dependencies
- smallest running memory footprint vs features
- least CPU usage (excluding console mpg123)
- simplicity of interface
- winamp skin support
- stability

Despite the fact that it's not being actively developed any more, it still works for me, better than any other player.
I think you will find many people of the same opinion.

When you compare some of the things living in /media-sound/ in portage, getting rid of xmms seems incredible.

Do you need a maintainer to volunteer?

Cheers,
Andy