MP3 playback in XMMS

[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 19:40:51 +0100, Marko wrote:

> On Thursday 08 January 2009 01:17, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> > And why in the world is anyone still using xmms, with it's hideous
> > gtk1 widget set and poor utf-8 support?
> 
> It's simple to use, with easy user interface --- play, stop, pause, rew, ff, 
> shuffle, repeat (and nothing else) on one window.
> 
> It Just Works, "yum install xmms xmms-mp3 xmms-flac" and its ready to go.
> 
> It is similar to WinAMP, very useful for windows2linux converts.

Nowadays I'd rather point such people at Audacious (package "audacious"
for Fedora and corresponding add-on packages at rpmfusion.org).