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From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>
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Subject: Re: Any generic (non-wm-specific) audio players?
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On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 07:10:43PM -0400, Chris Hill wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Gary Kline wrote:
> 
> >	...On my Ubuntu servers there is amarak(sp?) which is
> >	my favorite audio-only apps so far.  Is there anything like this
> >	that doesn't require desktop-specific libraries?
> 
> I've been using xmms for ages. It works, supports many formats, and 
> seems to be pretty lightweight.
> 

	I use xmms to play the few mp3 files I have; I see many variants
	of this in ports, but zero idea how the interface.  Does xmms
	play streams?  Be nice is there were a Howto for this.

	gary


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