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[tempestuous]

There are several XMMS packages contributed by different forum members, and quite a few input plugins and skins available as separate dotpets.
But there has been no consistency regarding where XMMS installs to in the filesystem, so it's difficult to mix-and-match the different components.

I have now packaged the most recent XMMS version with all of the useful input plugins included, so you won't need to chase around installing the plugins as a separate exercise.
And the installation location, /usr/local, is the same as Dougal's older XMMS-1.2.10 announced here -
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=13056
so Dougal's collection of skins are compatible with this new package.
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Multimedia/xmms-1.2.10-by-Dougal/

Thanks to Raffy, the XMMS package, and separate locales package are available here
http://minipc.org/ipup/download/xmms-1.2.11.pet
http://minipc.org/ipup/download/xmms-1.2.11-locales.pet

Input plugins included:
MAD MPEG decoder (MP3)
libmpg123 (MP3)
MP4/AAC (faad)
Ogg Vorbis
WMA (WindowsMediaAudio)
FLAC
WAVE
CD audio

There are two MP3 plugins, because as well as the standard libmpg123 plugin, I provided the additional MAD plugin which is claimed to sound superior.
The libmpg123 plugin has been disabled in preferences.
There are even more input plugins available here
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Multimedia/xmms-1.2.10-by-Dougal/xmms-plugins/

The output plugin has been (correctly) configured for ALSA. This can be changed to OSS in the rare case where your audio device is supported only by an OSS driver (such as the SiS 7019 audio chip in the eBox thin client).

XMMS will not work in Puppy4.x because Puppy4.x does not have the older GTK1 libraries.
For Puppy4.x you should consider:
Audacious
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=20942
or BMP
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=20919

[tempestuous]

EXTRA PLUGINS

Here is the MikMod input plugin & library -
http://minipc.org/ipup/download/xmms-libmikmod-3.1.12.pet
This input plugin supports music modules such as mod, s3m, it, and xm.
Getting the libmikmod library to compile with ALSA support was DIFFICULT.

Update Jan 4 2009
XMMS-crossfade Output plugin now available -
http://minipc.org/ipup/download/xmms-crossfade-0.3.14.pet

There are more plugins available from Dougal's collection at
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Multimedia/xmms-1.2.10-by-Dougal/xmms-plugins/
input plugins -
TTA (True Audio, lossless codec)
Monkeys Audio (lossless)
shorten (lossy/lossless)
WavPack (lossy/lossless)
sexyspc (Super Nintendo music)

output plugin -
Xosd (on-screen display)

[tempestuous]

I just tested some internet radio MP3 streams.
The "MAD" input plugin won't work for network streams, so you must disable it in preferences, and enable the "libmpg123" plugin instead.
Now click on "Play Location" and enter the URL of the MP3 stream, and importantly, add the suffix ":mp3" to the URL.
XMMS needs this suffix because it cannot identify the format of MP3 network streams.

[battleshooter]

Hey Tempestuous,

Thanks for putting XMMS together in one place. I just have one question, I don't seem to have the MAD plugin included in my download from here. (downloaded yesterday) I only have libmpg123.so. I enabled it and was able to listen to mp3s, so I don't really care about MAD, but I was just wondering what happened to it.

Thanks.

[tempestuous]

[battleshooter]

How embarrassing. I've been making all these mistakes it's unbelievable.

Anyway, I reinstalled your XMMS, Tempestuous and MAD was there. I must have grabbed someone else's and thought it was yours yesterday- I downloaded more than one XMMS package cause I was looking for one with WMA support. Sorry for the misunderstanding. Thanks Tempestuous.

Battleshooter

[ttuuxxx]

[aragon]

hi ttuuxxx,

so you got xmms2 running in puppy? i would like to test that

or did you only got the client running? your screenshot says the the xmms2d is not running !?!

cheers
aragon

[ttuuxxx]

[tempestuous]

Here is the "Audioscrobbler" plugin for XMMS, which will log what music you play with your Last.fm account to build your profile.
Last.fm is an internet radio/community http://www.last.fm
Enter your Last.fm username and password in XMMS Options > Preferences > General Plugins > XMMS-Scrobbler 0.4.0 > Configure
Now restart XMMS.

Under Puppy 3.x you will also need to install libcurl.so.3-symlink.pet
Under Puppy 4.x you may (?) need to install libidn.so.11.pet

I also provided the full lastfm player application, version 1.3.1.0, and thanks to MU, it's available here -
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Multimedia/lastfm-1.3/
It requires the qt4 library, which is available via petget for Puppy 4.x

[tempestuous]

Here is the Analog VUmeter plugin for XMMS.
Once installed, go to
Options > Preferences > Visualization Plugins
and enable the VUmeter.
Press the "Configure" button to change VUmeter skin. The default skin looks very ordinary, so I included the "ExpensiveHi-Fi" skin for both the meter and XMMS, which looks like this -
http://t0x.in/xmmsvumeter.html

[ttuuxxx]

[trapster]

Sweeeeeeeeeet

[M.Gregg]

Hello tempestuous,

Thank you for this package!
It also works in teenpup 2008!
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Here is a package of Xmms Vu meters. Just unzip with pupzip and drag them to

/root/.xmms/VU_Meter_skins and select configure in visualisations.
.xmms is a hidden file!

Try this skin!
http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Vortigo+++(+3D%2BVU%2BBeryl%2BDock+)?content=55440

Regards
M.Gregg

[M.Gregg]

Just for interest!



Screen shot of Xmms and plugins.


Regards
M.Gregg