Tips to install XMMS on Lucid

**shantiq** · February 20th, 2012

if you wish to add option of xmms-pulse on your 64-bit system here is a deb to do that [worked with alien from rpm]

**shantiq** · April 16th, 2012

I had been trying to enable different European languages on Xmms and had so far been unable to but by sheer luck found a way .... may be of use to some of you

Here English Turkish Cyrillic and Portuguese all display perfectly [French and German Greek fine too ]

Options/Preferences
Click in use fontsets
and use X fonts ; click on browse in both cases and pick fixed (misc) in the fonts on the left

I found bold 13 to give a good clear print but the other are cool too

**shantiq** · April 28th, 2012

now running on Pangolin

had to use 1 from page one all first nine boxes from 2. Long route [to make sure all dependencies were there] then installed Ibidem PPA and the old beast is good on the latest version of Ubuntu

xmms pangolin.png

**shantiq** · March 11th, 2013

quick note to say to other fans of the old Russian app just installed on 13.04 [64-bit] and fine too using info from first post and Ibidem's PPA as explained in detail there
xmms moves to the next level

aac m4a wavpack flac mp3 ape shn ogg wav etc all good!

once you have all dependencies install xmms and plugins in one

Code:

sudo apt-get install xmms xmms-flac xmms-shn xmms-mp4plugin xmms-coverviewer xmms-cueinfo xmms-crossfade xmms-wavpack xmms-midi xmms-musepack xmms-mac

xmms.jpg

Would still love it if someone knowledgeable knocked up an alac plugin too

**shantiq** · October 19th, 2013

Code:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ibid-ag/oldgtk1 
sudo apt-get update

run

Code:

 software-properties-gtk

then

change both ibid lines to lucid

and also while there add:

Code:

deb http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~knuta/xmms/karmic ./

Code:

deb-src http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~knuta/xmms/karmic ./

to software sources

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add x-dev package

then

Code:

sudo apt-get build-dep libglib1.2-dev

happy with enough dependencies by then it seems ....

and then for xmms and plugins from ibidem

Code:

sudo apt-get install xmms   xmms-cueinfo xmms-mp4plugin xmms-coverviewer  xmms-wavpack

if you want to play flac

install flac

then install deb

if you want to play shorten files also download

and install ./configure make sudo make install

then get and install

for some reason libshn went to the wrong place and was not seen

i had to manually move it to /usr/lib/xmms/Input/ where libwavpack is [which is the correct place]

/usr/lib/xmms/Input/libwavpack.so
/usr/lib64/xmms/Input/libshn.so

you can add ape with xmms-mac from ibidem [personally i do not use it as it clashes with flacon; if you do not use flacon go right ahead]

then you have was flac ape wavpack shorten m4a aac mp3 ogg all good on xmms on Saucy

set sound to alsa on Saucy .... yea still kickin' the ole russian beast ...

**edwardmartinsjr** · December 12th, 2013

Other GUI client for XMMS2 is the Promoe. Promoe is a client for the XMMS2 music daemon. Promoe’s interface is modeled after XMMS/WinAMP classic and supports Winamp 2 skins. It's written in C++ anduses the Qt4 toolkit.
http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/promoe

**shantiq** · December 12th, 2013

thanx for the info Edward on xmms2 but this thread here is really about xmms not xmms2 ; a different kettle of fish; personally i use xmms2 also sometimes and favour esperanza as a gui Promoe is a perfect copy of default xmms skin ; maybe try xmms too [if you have not]you will be amazed by sound quality