Using Winamp vis. Plugins with xmms

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Visuals.

[saintlupus (227599)]

Please welcome Winamp Visualization Plugins for XMMS, available now!

Time to call all of the Linux-using stoners I know.

--saint
(Hey, this is my 500th post. Sheesh.)

WMA input plugin?

[Steev (5372)]

What would be really cool is an XMMS input plugin that can decode WMAs. I don't ever encode music in the WMA format, but I do encounter it on the net quite a bit and it's a pain in the ass to have to go WMA -> Wav -> MP3 for every single one.

Get stoned on multiple platforms!

[Fastball (91927)]

We no longer have to settle for that Microsoft contraband now that the Penguins are producing some quality shit.

Plugins by Geiss

[Cheetah86 (136854)]

Ryan Geiss [geisswerks.com] makes some of the best winamp plugins available, including Geiss [geisswerks.com], Milkdrop [nullsoft.com], and Smoke [nullsoft.com]. Geiss is a little dated and runs too fast on my computer at maximum settings(the framerate isn't restricted making it look too fast), but Smoke and Milkdrop run smoothly. Milkdrop is one of the best Winamp plugins available, so check it out if you have Winamp, or now, XMMS.

A mini review

[Nailer (69468)]

First, someone below seems to think this was created by Winamp. It wasn't, it just another Open Source tool created by OSS developers/hackers.

Install the plugin. Then if you're using WineX (as you should), you'll need to link .wine to .transgaming. Start XMMS, and enter the plugin configuration dialog. You'll have WinAMP meta plugin pop up in the list.

Now download Geiss or G-Force from Winamp.com and run `winex (whatever).exe'. Install as normal, the defaults will be fine.

Now start XMMS again. When you try and configure the WinAMP meta plugin, you should now be able to select the Plugin DLL you just installed.

Using Transgaming WineX 2.0 stable release, GeForce works fine, except the window doesn't move and is always on top. GeForce doesn't resize the screen when it tries to go fullscreen. I'm not sure if these are WineX problems, WinAMP meta plugins or otherwise, suffice to say that WineX handles this well already for most games it supports.

So yeah: G-Force and Geis are great. Various `dancer' type plugins failed miserably. But its a promising start, especially for an app that's only existed for a few weeks.

XMMS rocks, where's a no-gui version for old PCs?

[npendleton (255215)]

I do love my XMMS, but...
mpg123 may support lowend PCs, but XMMS has the biggest selection of plugins of any GPL MP3 player. e.g., this plugin [sourceforge.net] for that remote [x10.com].

We all have doorstops, ahem... older computers, that could be headless mp3 servers, great gifts, eco "Reuse me baby!" friendly, and even RULE Project consistent.

So where is the full command line and no-GUI version of XMMS?

xmms-shell [sourceforge.net] [dead link] was a great start at the command line part. It has very detailed input and output of status, settings and more from the command-line. XMMS-control [joethielen.com] provides a web gui for XMMS via xmms-shell. XMMS project should encorporate a command line that elegantly handles ALL GUI commands and info displayed.

Removing the GUI, and adding full/powerful command line, would support many recipes for mp3 server.

My recipe for a server would have a headless box, wirelessly connected to the Home Entertainment Center via DVD Anywhere with remote [x10.com] for song skipping. Samba Server for LAN users to play music, and create playlists. A web gui for XMMS, particularly for selecting playlists (auto-converted from LAN users playlists to local). Command line also creates opportunity for a TV style GUI, to properly handle TV-out videocard, that DVD Anywhere can send to the TV!

Ideally an integrated XMMS command line would seemlessly handle multiple instances of XMMS and multiple sound cards, and dynamic reassignment of sound cards to a particular XMMS instance, for powerful whole house sound system with as many zones as sound cards on the MP3 server. e.g., play same song in every zone/room in the house at the start of the party such as Stones "Start me up", later break out the living room zone to another XMMS instance running dance music playlist, and patio to jazz. Later, reunify the all the sound cards/rooms/zones to the XMMS instance playing Jazz.

-Nathaniel

Re:Too bad...

[Lemmy Caution (8378)]

I know that this is a GTK1.2 limitation, not an xmms limitation, but xmms fails the polish test when it comes to file browsing by extension, and the entire file-browse function in general. (I guess all gtk apps - except the gimp, which has its own file browser - suffer from this, but I don't feel the pain in the other apps as much because masking my file browsing isn't as important to me in anything other than mp3 browsing.) It's what keeps it behind winamp.