Audacious VS XMMS

[Tyler Aviss]

Just an FYI from the Linux Open-Source-Software realm. Lately, I've
been having some issues with the XMMS audio software in terms of ALSA
mixing. Most software using the newer ALSA interfaces seems to allow
for built-in mixing, meaning that you can be running more program that
uses audio (in my case, skype tends to otherwise tie up the
soundcard).

XMMS (or at least the version I've found on Debian) uses an older
interface, which means it doesn't always play audio if anything else
is using the soundcard (including your window manager, KDE, etc).
Audacious is based upon much the same base as XMMS, and while lacking
some features has a bit of a nicer/simpler configuration interface,
pretty much the same front-end interface, and it can use winamp 2.x
skins.

For those that like XMMS-type audio programs, but are frustrated with
some of the annoyances of that particular program, you might want to
try audacious (it's available on Debian/etch).



Cheers,


Tyler
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