Audacious VS XMMS

[Tyler Aviss]

I was actually using the ALSA driver for XMMS, but it might be that it
uses some old OSS'ish hooks. Actually, for awhile I was using
alsa+esound until ALSA got better mixing support, but no more need for
that now thankfully.

On 9/17/07, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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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