MP3 playback in XMMS

[Paulo Cavalcanti]

On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 8:01 AM, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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).
>
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Version 1.4.5 is kind of old.

The current version  is: *1.5.1* (released May 23, 2008).

If one uses the same skin, it is difficult to distinguish (visually)
audacious from xmms,
and audacious eats a lot more of CPU cycles.

Using top, in a quadcore Q6600 (4GB ram), xmms eats in the average 8% (peek
of 12%) of CPU and audacious 14% (peek of 21%), both with the pulse plugin.

-- 
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ
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