I've been annoyed at the proliferation of iTunes-like music players and the dearth of old school Winamp/xmms-like players. I still listen to albums in the time honored fashion of selecting one and listening to it straight through. I also have many, many gigabytes of music, and importing them into my library never seems to go as smoothly as it should. Importing one album at a time seems like an insulting waste of time, since the whole point of these players is library management. Furthermore, I also have a lot of different music in different formats, like .mod, .spc, etc and those don't seem to be readily supported by rhythmbox, etc. so I can't listen to them anyway.
Adding insult to injury, xmms has disappeared from Ubuntu in favor of xmms2 which, while it has plugins for different formats, crashes when I try to play music! Thanks a lot, guys! I guys the "2" in xmms2 stands for "sucks".
Thankfully, I just discovered 'audacious' today -- which appears to be basically a workalike of xmms. (The apt data says it's a fork of 'beep' -- maybe that's a fork of xmms... I don't know, or care.) Anyway, Ubuntu has lots of plugins for it, including all my old music. So I'm back in business.
Fri Oct 03 12:04:58 call me old school:
