One need one app XMMS

[woodsmoke]

It used to be, long long ago, and far far away...

That the overriding, over arching, philosophy of Linux was that there should be "one app" which did one thing really well.

If one wants to "learn Linux" one cannot go better than by way of "doing" Linux...

and one of the first, and the best, "ROOTS" of how Linux works was the "music player" known as XMMS

It was, and kind of is, and now is morphed into XMMS2 as a "sound server" that ran in the "background" and had to be run by command line

there were Graphical User Interfaces" which sometimes worked and sometimes not...

But...the POINT here is that there may be some denizens of Kubuntu Forums that may want to get at the guts of Linux and XMMS is a way...it turns out that there really ARE other people than the old woodsmoker and here is one...

and...it works!!...I use gKrellm as a GUI btw

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2348859

woodsmoke

[wizard10000]

qmmp is everything xmms was before they messed it up. It's also qt-based and will use my favorite winamp2 skin just like xmms would - and is my go-to music player.

I don't think most folks would be able to tell the difference between qmmp and the old xmms. Give it a try

[woodsmoke]

I quite agree! as far as using the app but the old XMMS required one to get down into the guts of things, a little, running it from terminal etc.
But, yes I quite agree.
woodsmoke

[GreyGeek]

My first Linux was RH 5.0, which I installed on May 1, 1998. I spent a lot of time with SuSE 6.3. Those early versions of Linux had one thing in common. EVERYTHING about booting or configuring the installation was controlled by scripts in /etc. Remember /etc/inittab? In it were such goodies as the spawn command. /etc/skel? It was how you made turnkey systems for specific users. You could customize their home account to do anything you wanted them to do or allowed them to do. For a memory jogger you consulted Paul Sheer's "Rute Users Tutorial"
https://www0.sun.ac.za/hpc/images/d/d5/Rute.pdf
It's still a great read but much of what it says about actually running Linux no longer applies. The guts of Linux are slowly being buried out of sight. Even the guts of KDE aren't easily accessed or understood. But at 76 I'm glad I can still click a mouse.

[woodsmoke]

GG wrote:

The guts of Linux are slowly being buried out of sight.

That is true,
It is a good thing really, in that the OS really is ready for daily use for the "average" person.
But, still it makes one a little wistful.
woodsmoke

[GreyGeek]

Ya, as I continue to forget more and more things I become more and more thankful that KDE is so easy to use!

[woodsmoke]

lol
woodsmoke

[vinnywright]

qmmp is everything xmms was before they messed it up. It's also qt-based and will use my favorite winamp2 skin just like xmms would - and is my go-to music player.

I don't think most folks would be able to tell the difference between qmmp and the old xmms. Give it a try

i'm liking the "simple interface"

VINNY