[OLPC-SF] Xmms(winamp clone) on the XO

[Joachim Pedersen]

For those of you longing for a good music listening interface for your
XO. Try out XMMS, a winamp clone, that can be downloaded and installed
through yum.
As root:
'yum install xmms'
Install is about 15MB, including all the dependencies .

Fonts are a bit small, but you can double the main window size by
pressing  'ctrl+d'
 Unfortunately, non-free codecs are disabled, so mp3, and the like
won't play with out installing additional codecs.

If you have a a developer build running with Ohmd enabled, make sure
you '/etc/init.d/ohmd stop'  as root... Ohm doesn't recognize playback
is happening, and will suspend the XO after a minute or so of user
inactivity, stopping playback and the process. When you are done
'/etc/init.d/ohmd start' to start Ohm back up again

Though the built in speakers aren't much to write home about, I was
quite impressed with the sound quality from headphone jack, which is
better than some production laptops I've owned in the past. The little
AMD Geode doesn't trip up decoding either, even while doing other
things in the background, Browse, etc... Music tested was encoded as
ogg/vorbis quality 9. For those unaware, this is high quality variable
bit rate ~320kbit/s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorbis

XMMS likes to stay on top of the other windows all the time, double
clicking on the top 5mm of the XMMS window rolls it up into a  little
strip that is easy to move out of the way, toggle 'ctrl-d' to shrink
it even further...

Happy listening...


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-Joachim

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