Re: replacing XMMS

["duncan brown" <duncanbrown linuxadvocate net>]

Colin Walters said:

> The whole idea of Rhythmbox (caching all your song metadata in memory)
> definitely requires more RAM, no way around that.  How many songs do you
> have?

heh, funny you should ask.  i'm about 2/3rds of the way converting my cd
collection to ogg... all 700+ discs =]

>> oh, and xmms has great plugin support for stuff like flac and mp3, if
>> i were able to get rhythmbox working with mp3s without having to
>> recompile i'd be alot happier.
>
> You can since 0.8.0.

i live in the here and now, and the latest 'fedora released' is 0.5.4 on
fc1.  what version is going to ship with fc2?

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