[TAG] apt sources.list for multimedia

[Chris Bannister]

On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 05:19:27PM -0400, Ben Okopnik wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 01:58:06PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
[..]
> > "audacious" (gtk2-based) might be a better bet.  Or xmms2, though that's
> > somewhat of a different thing.
> 
> _Quite_ the different thing, as I found out last week. Instead of a
> music player, it's now some weird client/server thing, with a broken
> console-based controller app - and no way (that I could find) to do
> anything like 'xmms2 song.mp3' and have it play. Highly aggravating,
> that; if you're going to completely change not just the interface but
> the very nature of an app, the name should not imply that it's just an
> improved/updated version.

And the developers had the gaul to moan about the bugs being submitted
complaining about how it isn't like xmms. :-(

I use moc, myself. :-)

-- 
Chris.
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