replacing XMMS

[Colin Walters]

On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 16:39, duncan brown wrote:

> if you're looking to put rhythmbox on the foreground, then why not just
> have xmms install into the "more sound and video applications" menu?  my
> pIII 700 with 256mb of ram CRAWLS when i have rhythmbox and firefox
> running. 

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?

> 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.

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