Audacious VS XMMS

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 09:40:04AM -0700, Tyler Aviss wrote:
> 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).

Applications using the alsa interface get software mixing (or hardware
mixing if supported).  Applications using the old OSS interface instead
do not get to use software mixing (they still get hardware mixing if
supported though).

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