Why isn't XMMS Player available in official Ubuntu repositories?

[Kosimo]

Why not?

[Perfect Storm]

1) It's ancient and havn't been maintained for a very long time (including security).
2) It depends on GTK1.2 which AFAIK is obsolite.

Solution;

Use Audacious

[Kosimo]

1) It's ancient and havn't been maintained for a very long time (including security).
2) It depends on GTK1.2 which AFAIK is obsolite.

Solution;

Use Audacious

Thanks for the answer.
Yes, I've been using Audacious since Feisty. But I'm not really satisfy with it, and I wanted to give it a try to XMMS as I heard it is rock solid.
Audacious doesn't even have a working wepage for now, latest version has a very annoying bug witch it haven't been solved yet (I made a bug of course)...
So... There are really few Winamp-like alternatives to Audacious 1.5.1

[Perfect Storm]

You could give Xmms2 a try, just remember to get the gui as well.

Though Audacious 2 is on the drawing board (looking forward to it).

[Kosimo]

You could give Xmms2 a try, just remember to get the gui as well.

Though Audacious 2 is on the drawing board (looking forward to it).

I've never get to install XMMS2 with GUI (I have to admit I'm a repository addict) sudo apt-get install xxxx that damn easy

I didn't even know that Audacious 2 is on the way. I've heard that on google summer code 2008 audacious had something to say but after that, the webpage disappear.
Where do you get that information?

[Perfect Storm]

From their homepage, wiki and forum.

[init1]

1) It's ancient and havn't been maintained for a very long time (including security).
2) It depends on GTK1.2 which AFAIK is obsolite.

Solution;

Use Audacious

And? Why would it need to be updated? It's already perfect.

[FranMichaels]

I didn't even know that Audacious 2 is on the way. I've heard that on google summer code 2008 audacious had something to say but after that, the webpage disappear.
Where do you get that information?

They also have their mercurial repositories which you can pull from.
http://hg.atheme-project.org/

I can confirm audacious 2 will rock. I'm using "1.90" from the hg repositories... They finally offer a nice gtk gui, but still support the old winamp 2 style (run with audacious -i skinned). It supports several more formats (which matters to me as I love chiptunes)

Either way, if xmms has an advantage over audacious, I'd like to know what it is. You can even opt to have a file loader look like xmms. Gentoo has dropped xmms as well if I'm not mistaken...

[steveneddy]

I just use audacious, use the xmms skins and listen away.

No probs here.

[Polygon]

And? Why would it need to be updated? It's already perfect.

gtk 1.2 is not included in hardy/intrepid by default, and they are trying to phase it out.

if there are any security holes that are present in xmms, they will never be updated as upstream is dead.

gtk 1.2 is ugly.