The X Multimedia System (XMMS) is a free software audio player (software) very similar to Winamp, that runs on many Unix-like operating systems. It supports skins that were made for Winamp. It was first released under the name X11Amp, with a license that did not provide any access to the program's source code. Nowadays, it is released under the GNU General Public License. XMMS currently supports the following audio file format and video file formats: *Audio CD, including CDDB via FreeDB lookup. *libmikmod supported formats (including .XM, .MOD, .IT) *MPEG Layer 1,2 and 3 (Also known as MP3), using the mpg123 library *Vorbis *WAV *WavPack with support provided by a third party plugin *speex high quality & ratio speech compression format via plugin. *FLAC support is provided by a plugin in the FLAC library *WMA Limited support provided by third party plugin. See:[http://mcmcc.bat.ru/xmms-wma/ http://mcmcc.bat.ru/xmms-wma/] It supports Icecast and SHOUTcast streaming, and is compatible with Winamp 2 skin (computing). ==Criticism== XMMS has continued to use an antiquated version of the GTK toolkit years after a major revision was available. The primary reason for this reluctance to upgrade was the fact that many XMMS plugins (written by third parties) were dependent on the older version of GTK to function properly (about boxes and configuration dialogs). Many software developers also consider the XMMS codebase to be poorly designed and difficult to maintain. These factors led to various fork (software) and related projects: * The Beep Media Player, a fork of XMMS code that uses GTK2, started around 2003 * A lesser known project named XMMS2, which also forked the XMMS code to use GTK2. This project has since been discontinued. * The official XMMS2 project, which is a complete re-design of the music player, started around the end of 2002. ==See also== *List of audio players (software) *Comparison of media players ==External links== *[http://www.xmms.org/ Official homepage] *[http://www.lynucs.org/?xmms XMMS screenshots] Free audio software Free Mac OS software Free Linux software Linux media players
Should it be noted that XMMS is essentially a Winamp clone (to the point of natively supporting Winamp 2.x skins)? Why was this article moved to this title? :[Please note that 'this title' is not clear after moving the page. It is better to quote it. - User:Patrick 13:19 Jan 11, 2003 (UTC)] This program is known most widely as XMMS in the way as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is known as NASA. --User:Maveric149 Yup, should be moved back. Google sez: * "X Multimedia System": 4,430 hits * XMMS: 387,000 hits See also: Wikipedia:Naming conventions. --User:Eloquence 23:27 Jan 10, 2003 (UTC) :Moved. --mav
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The X Multimedia System (XMMS) is a free software audio player (software) very similar to Winamp, that runs on many Unix-like operating systems. It supports skins that were made for Winamp. It was first released under the name X11Amp, with a license that did not provide any access to the program's source code. Nowadays, it is released under the GNU General Public License. XMMS currently supports the following audio file format and video file formats: *Audio CD, including CDDB via FreeDB lookup. *libmikmod supported formats (including .XM, .MOD, .IT) *MPEG Layer 1,2 and 3 (Also known as MP3), using the mpg123 library *Vorbis *WAV *WavPack with support provided by a third party plugin *speex high quality & ratio speech compression format via plugin. *FLAC support is provided by a plugin in the FLAC library *WMA Limited support provided by third party plugin. See:[http://mcmcc.bat.ru/xmms-wma/ http://mcmcc.bat.ru/xmms-wma/] It supports Icecast and SHOUTcast streaming, and is compatible with Winamp 2 skin (computing). ==Criticism== XMMS has continued to use an antiquated version of the GTK toolkit years after a major revision was available. The primary reason for this reluctance to upgrade was the fact that many XMMS plugins (written by third parties) were dependent on the older version of GTK to function properly (about boxes and configuration dialogs). Many software developers also consider the XMMS codebase to be poorly designed and difficult to maintain. These factors led to various fork (software) and related projects: * The Beep Media Player, a fork of XMMS code that uses GTK2, started around 2003 * A lesser known project named XMMS2, which also forked the XMMS code to use GTK2. This project has since been discontinued. * The official XMMS2 project, which is a complete re-design of the music player, started around the end of 2002. ==See also== *List of audio players (software) *Comparison of media players ==External links== *[http://www.xmms.org/ Official homepage] *[http://www.lynucs.org/?xmms XMMS screenshots] Free audio software Free Mac OS software Free Linux software Linux media players
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Should it be noted that XMMS is essentially a Winamp clone (to the point of natively supporting Winamp 2.x skins)? Why was this article moved to this title? :[Please note that 'this title' is not clear after moving the page. It is better to quote it. - User:Patrick 13:19 Jan 11, 2003 (UTC)] This program is known most widely as XMMS in the way as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is known as NASA. --User:Maveric149 Yup, should be moved back. Google sez: * "X Multimedia System": 4,430 hits * XMMS: 387,000 hits See also: Wikipedia:Naming conventions. --User:Eloquence 23:27 Jan 10, 2003 (UTC) :Moved. --mav
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