XMMS
The X Multimedia System (XMMS) is a free multimedia player, very similar to Winamp, that runs on many Unix-like operating systems (including Linux). It supports skins that were made for Winamp. It was first released under the name X11Amp, with a license that did not provide any access to the program's source code. Nowadays, it is released under the GNU General Public License.
XMMS currently supports the following audio and video file formats:
- Audio CD, including CDDB lookup.
- libmikmod supported formats
- MPEG Layer 1,2 and 3 (Also known as MP3), using the mpg123 library
- Ogg-Vorbis
- WAV
- speex high quality & ratio speech compression format via plugin.
- FLAC support is provided by a plugin in the FLAC library
It supports Icecast and Shoutcast streaming, and is compatible with Winamp 2 skins.
Criticism
XMMS has continued to use an antiquated version of the GTK+ toolkit years after a major revision was available. Many software developers also consider the XMMS codebase to be poorly designed and difficult to maintain. In 2003 this led to two independent forks of XMMS, XMMS2 and the Beep Media Player, both of which are based on GTK+ 2.
See also
External links
- http://www.xmms.org/ - Official homepage
- XMMS screenshots (http://www.lynucs.org/?xmms)
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