User Reviews and Votes for XMMS

Submitted by Kyle on 23-Aug-2004 17:50:37

Pros: simple, clean, working

Cons: skins are basic

Period used: 1 year

Other products used: alot

Submitted by cas on 24-Aug-2004 11:21:57

Submitted by Dave on 27-Aug-2004 00:55:28

Submitted by Gord Gilbert on 27-Aug-2004 21:48:08

Details: Not set up to run with foxy tunes yet ratings above are for the program itself. I am assuming 1 is best, and 5 is worst.

Submitted by Gord Gilbert on 27-Aug-2004 21:50:23

Summary: xmms is good

Details: sorry, I just wanted to vote for xmms as it is blantantly winamp for x

Pros: works on linux

Cons: not overly original

Period used: long time

Other products used: all of them expecpt that foobar thingy

Submitted by Joe on 02-Sep-2004 21:26:10

Submitted by Tim Stearns on 07-Sep-2004 02:17:56

Submitted by guest on 08-Sep-2004 18:34:30

Submitted by David on 08-Sep-2004 18:38:28

Summary: XMMS on Linux

Details: I use the latest CVS version of XMMS on my RedHat 9 box. The current implementation with XMMS from FoxyTunes 0.61 seems to work great. I just had to manually make a sym-link from /usr/local/lib/libxmms.so to /usr/lib. Perhaps you could add /usr/local/lib to your search paths to make this a little easier?

Submitted by Kyle on 14-Sep-2004 14:02:05

Submitted by Carlos Wagner on 14-Sep-2004 15:30:15

Details: how can i use beep-media-player?

Submitted by Knut on 15-Sep-2004 07:50:08

Summary: The Best Linux Player

Details: Why use anything else?

Submitted by Justin on 15-Sep-2004 20:08:06

Submitted by Matthew Walker on 17-Sep-2004 14:42:20

Submitted by schleyfox on 19-Sep-2004 11:17:57

Cons: doesn't let window manager interact normally

Period used: 5 years?

Other products used: rhythmbox, and most others

Submitted by Jeff Buck on 22-Sep-2004 19:57:35

Submitted by Tyler on 23-Sep-2004 16:01:38

Summary: xmms is very good

Details: it suports input/output, visualization plugins, themes, suports winamp themes (not the new ones), it's fast, very lightweight. It's free and it's open source.

Pros: it looks like winamp so it's easy even for the dumb

Period used: about 5 years

Other products used: lot's of them on Linux, Windows and MacOS X

Submitted by Marco Lopes on 24-Sep-2004 06:34:01

Summary: Nicely Done

Details: Running on SuSE 9.1. Had to update Xmms but that was painless. Slick little toy.

Pros: Fast and easy, works well

Cons: Help is sketchy

Period used: 1 month

Other products used: Foxy with Xmms is my first choice

Submitted by Tim Stearns on 07-Sep-2004 02:17:56

Submitted by sterph on 25-Sep-2004 12:28:31

Submitted by gorch on 29-Sep-2004 09:07:29

Summary: Good

Submitted by Shenghuo on 29-Sep-2004 10:55:07

Submitted by theo on 29-Sep-2004 18:26:01

Submitted by didirudy on 30-Sep-2004 08:38:57

Summary: XMMS is pretty good...

Details: It's modeled on Winamp, but it still hasn't implemented many of the best ideas of modern Winamp.

Pros: Winamp-like interface

Cons: Not as mature as Winamp

Period used: One year or so

Other products used: Winamp

Submitted by Ronnie Garduno on 02-Oct-2004 20:54:13

Details: did not recognize xmms :( using mdk10 in kde and foxytunes6.1

Other products used: no

Submitted by mandavi on 03-Oct-2004 22:46:20

Summary: Good Player

Details: It just lacks good playlist management.

Pros: Easy, fun, does everything

Cons: No good playlist management or rating

Period used: years and years

Other products used: don't remember. Lots...always want something better.

Submitted by The Doctor What on 07-Oct-2004 17:29:07

Submitted by Jeff Rossi on 08-Oct-2004 09:32:34

Submitted by mike on 09-Oct-2004 01:11:21

Pros: Low memory and processor requirements

Cons: Can't play WMA audio

Period used: since 2002

Submitted by ARR on 10-Oct-2004 16:49:33

Period used: daily

Other products used: mplayer, mpg123

Submitted by Tomas on 11-Oct-2004 13:06:53

Pros: lots of plugins

Submitted by Mark on 12-Oct-2004 12:52:56

Period used: many years

Submitted by Mauro on 12-Oct-2004 14:22:31

Submitted by Lennart on 15-Oct-2004 03:01:08

Summary: Excellent player

Details: I use this on freeBSD 5.2.1

Pros: Skinable, well thought UI

Cons: Skinable (really!)

Period used: 2 years

Other products used: mplayer

Submitted by Charles Johnson on 17-Oct-2004 16:00:28

Period used: 4 years

Other products used: Rhythmbox

Submitted by Herve Salesse on 18-Oct-2004 05:55:33

Details: Madman, a music library system (cfr. madman.sourceforge.net), which sends his search results to xmms. It has an auto DJ system that picks songs randomly, based on rating and listening duration. It looks like it has a very fast search allgorythm. The longer you use it, the more you will love it. You definitely have to try that. Maybe, foxytunes can send some comands to madman (like autodj and rating features)?

Pros: fast music search, even with over 5000 songs.

Cons: music library and player are different programs, but actually that is a good thing.

Period used: XMMS: 2 years. Madman: 4 months.

Other products used: rythmbox (was buggy and not as good as madman)

Submitted by hennewou on 23-Oct-2004 10:43:10

Submitted by Miguel on 24-Oct-2004 20:06:23

Summary: Xmms is great and expandable, but sometimes cumbersome

Details: Xmms is basically winamp for linux. I really wish there was a viable iTunes knock-off for linux. I live in a dorm and I want to be able to share easily with the apple daapd protocol. I also want to be able sort by album and playlists such as rhythmbox/itunes. But only has plugins for my Microsoft Natural keyboard, so for now thats what i'm using.

Pros: Simple. Works with Microsoft Natural Media Keyboard (via Plugin). Has Jump

Submitted by Andy on 28-Oct-2004 17:05:26

Submitted by Gargoylle[LtK] on 28-Oct-2004 18:08:55

Details: AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) Everything i need!

Submitted by David on 29-Oct-2004 09:35:26

Period used: 1 1/2 year

Other products used: winamp, musicmatch, windows mp, sonique

Submitted by Nacho on 02-Nov-2004 08:22:12

Submitted by sam on 02-Nov-2004 12:50:49

Pros: stable, effective, good integration with growing technologies, simple

Period used: 6 years

Other products used: noatun, rhytmbox, mp3blaster, mplayer, winamp, ...

Submitted by Yannick Le Saint (kyncani) on 02-Nov-2004 17:30:37

Period used: 4 years

Other products used: rhythmbox

Submitted by Fernando Flores on 04-Nov-2004 05:44:40

Summary: XMMS is good for you

Details: The best OpenSource player now embed in Firefox.

Period used: all the time

Submitted by mallow on 05-Nov-2004 05:04:19

Submitted by johnhaltonx on 06-Nov-2004 10:38:58

Submitted by vasant on 07-Nov-2004 11:48:26

Submitted by nospam on 09-Nov-2004 04:05:36

Submitted by Ben on 09-Nov-2004 17:06:17

Submitted by Paul on 10-Nov-2004 01:10:06

Submitted by Marc on 11-Nov-2004 13:41:53

Pros: Extensive plugin provided capabilities

Cons: Needs more playlist manager features (a la rythmbox)

Period used: since it was X11amp

Other products used: rythmbox, noatun, mgq123, some others I can't remeber

Submitted by Paul on 11-Nov-2004 19:23:51

Submitted by Xander on 12-Nov-2004 07:18:07

Summary: On Unix/Linux, XMMS is still number 1

Details: Can I vote to have shuffle on/off toggle as a button? It's the only thing I miss from foxytunes.

Submitted by Tim on 12-Nov-2004 07:53:27

Submitted by Clifford on 12-Nov-2004 12:19:26

Submitted by Raul Flauta on 12-Nov-2004 15:24:52

Period used: 1 mounth

Other products used: noatun

Submitted by Thierens on 14-Nov-2004 05:49:41

Other products used: win amp

Submitted by Donn Beer on 14-Nov-2004 10:31:19

Submitted by Ral Romero on 15-Nov-2004 09:13:39

Submitted by :) on 15-Nov-2004 14:03:45

Details: Please include xmms in player selection. Thanks.

Period used: often

Submitted by Derrick Lim on 15-Nov-2004 15:40:15

Period used: 2 minutes

Submitted by Emerson on 16-Nov-2004 04:43:40

Submitted by Amigo on 18-Nov-2004 07:56:57

Pros: can play just about everything

Period used: 3 years

Other products used: winamp, windows media

Submitted by John Pierce on 18-Nov-2004 13:22:46

Summary: cool

Submitted by vavhab on 19-Nov-2004 02:33:11

Summary: my fav player

Pros: does all i need that easy to use

Cons: none that i can think

Period used: 1 year+

Submitted by Steve McCarthy on 20-Nov-2004 08:26:55

Summary: best for linux

Details: yes i think it's the best mp3 player for linux platform and its integration with foxytunes is quite good.

Submitted by Kenneth on 05-Nov-2004 06:17:25

Summary: very nice thing

Submitted by sunil kundal on 20-Nov-2004 13:54:35

Pros: It's the closest to Winamp on Linux

Cons: The interface could be better

Period used: 2 years

Other products used: mplayer

Submitted by Emmanuel on 21-Nov-2004 13:09:13

Summary: XMMS works great! ;)

Details: Love the plugin. On a sidenote, I wish XMMS has a skin which looks like this: http://www.winamp.com/skins/details.php?id=133717 Basically, it's a thin strip (there are three possible shapes! which are ALL shown in that screenshot) which sits (typically!) at the top of your screen...with 40% opacity and opaque on mouse hover. This would be my ideal XMMS controller but I don't want to take anything away from FoxyTunes...it's great.

Period used: 10 minutes!

Submitted by Oliver Snowden on 22-Nov-2004 13:23:24

Submitted by petko on 23-Nov-2004 05:07:39

Submitted by Pepe on 25-Nov-2004 16:20:32

Pros: XMMS rocks !!!

Cons: I can't make it work with FoxyTunes :(

Period used: 4 years

Other products used: Winamp

Submitted by Jose Luis Mgica on 26-Nov-2004 04:46:34

Pros: incredibly reliable

Cons: Doesn't accept gtk themes

Period used: 4 years

Other products used: winamp

Submitted by Matt Runty on 26-Nov-2004 12:11:29

Summary: Muito Bom

Details: um player incrivelmente verstil que faz tudo que eu preciso.

Pros: all

Cons: I dont know

Period used: 12 monts

Submitted by Uir Maia on 26-Nov-2004 14:26:18

Submitted by Alec Burrett on 21-Oct-2004 14:14:13

Period used: 1 year

Submitted by Giroresh on 27-Nov-2004 05:06:11

Submitted by robin on 27-Nov-2004 07:16:36

Submitted by drunken on 27-Nov-2004 15:14:51

Summary: PHAT SHIT

Submitted by phestarix on 28-Nov-2004 03:44:40

Submitted by Bonder on 28-Nov-2004 05:49:17

Submitted by nichlurs on 29-Nov-2004 02:30:21

Submitted by Fourat on 29-Nov-2004 11:07:39

Other products used: Winamp

Submitted by Fourat on 29-Nov-2004 11:07:39

Summary: It really works fine. The best player for Linux!

Period used: over 1.5 years

Other products used: Windows Media Player, Winamp, BSplayer, etc.

Submitted by Yavor on 29-Nov-2004 14:37:19

Submitted by Eddy Petrisor on 29-Nov-2004 16:58:57

Submitted by Richard Witt on 30-Nov-2004 09:38:04

Summary: Very good choice (but only for music... Otherwise MPlayer OWNZ TEH SKIES ;) )

Submitted by Csigaa on 30-Nov-2004 10:21:56

Pros: Compact UI; many plugins

Cons: Default equaliser only works for MP3s; needs X environment

Period used: 3 years

Other products used: Totem, Winamp, mpg123, mpg321, sox, mplayer, ogg123, Media Player, Realplayer, cdp

Submitted by Pasty Chomper on 04-Dec-2004 16:01:15

Summary: The greatest in Linux

Pros: Winamp like, great playlist

Cons: Missing ID3 editing tool

Period used: 2yrs

Other products used: winamp, xine, totem

Submitted by Radek on 05-Dec-2004 03:50:35

Cons: No built-in equalizer presets.

Submitted by gaea on 06-Dec-2004 10:39:53

Details: I love both of this media players. I would like Amarok the best if it was not a kde app. TWO thumbs up to FoxyTunes. Abe

Period used: 3 years

Other products used: nothing close to XMMS and Amarok

Submitted by abe on 09-Dec-2004 16:48:51

Submitted by Dan on 09-Dec-2004 22:29:09

Submitted by Onur guzel on 10-Dec-2004 11:21:25

Period used: 2 years

Submitted by Cesar Araque on 13-Dec-2004 11:01:34

Submitted by chipri on 14-Dec-2004 10:00:32

Other products used: Winamp, Realplayer

Submitted by wojTrek on 14-Dec-2004 17:36:30

Submitted by Lars Brunke on 15-Dec-2004 11:08:14

Details: the best

Submitted by diego on 15-Dec-2004 12:10:16