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XMMS

The X Multimedia System (XMMS) is a free software audio player (software) very similar to Winamp, that runs on many Unix-like operating systems.

= History =

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On June 10, 1999, MultiMedia System ; the official interpretation of the X is Cross-platform . [http://www.slashnet.org/forums/xmms-19990613.html]

== Criticism ==

XMMS has continued to use an antiquated version of the GTK toolkit years after a major revision was available. The primary reason for this reluctance to upgrade was the fact that many XMMS plugins (written by third parties) were dependent on the older version of GTK to function properly (about boxes and configuration dialogs). Many software developers also consider the XMMS codebase to be poorly designed and difficult to maintain. These factors led to various fork (software) and related projects:

  • The Beep Media Player, a fork of XMMS code that uses GTK2, started around 2003
  • A lesser known GTK2 fork named XMMS2, by Mohammed Sameer. This project has since been discontinued.
  • The XMMS2 project, a complete re-design of XMMS by one of its original authors - Peter Alm - started around the end of 2002. [http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/History#.28Late_2002.29]

    • = Features =

    XMMS currently supports the following audio file format and video file formats: *Audio CD, including CDDB via FreeDB lookup *libmikmod supported formats (including .XM, .MOD, .IT) *MPEG Layer 1,2 and 3 (Also known as MP3), using the Mpg123 library *Vorbis *WAV *TTA support is provided by a third party plugin *WavPack with support provided by a third party plugin *speex high quality & ratio speech compression format via plugin *FLAC support is provided by a plugin in the FLAC library *Advanced_Audio_Coding support is provided by the faad2 library, supporting m4a files *WMA Limited support provided by third party plugin. See:[http://mcmcc.bat.ru/xmms-wma/ http://mcmcc.bat.ru/xmms-wma/]

    It supports Icecast and SHOUTcast streaming, and is compatible with Winamp 2 skin (computing).

    = References =

  • 4Front Technologies (August 20, 2005). [http://www.opensound.com/press/1999/xmms.txt Press release] regarding sponsorship of XMMS.
  • SlashNET (August 20, 2005). Discussion with XMMS developers, [http://www.slashnet.org/forums/xmms-19990613.html 1999-06-13].
  • XMMS2 (August 20, 2005). Project [http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/History#.28Late_2002.29 history].

    • =See also=

    *List of audio players (software) *Comparison of media players

    =External links=

    *[http://www.xmms.org/ Official homepage] *[http://www.lynucs.org/xmms XMMS screenshots]