About

XMMS is a Winamp-lookalike. Before installing XMMS, it is recommended that you look at ["BeepMediaPlayer"] which is a fork of XMMS using GTK2 - meaning that graphically it integrates with the Ubuntu desktop better than XMMS.

This should work with breezy and hoary. You should add the universe and multiverse repos: ["AddingRepositoriesHowto"].

Installing

sudo apt-get install xmms

Getting WMA-support

wget -c http://frankandjacq.com/ubuntuguide/xmms-wma_1.0.4-2_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i xmms-wma_1.0.4-2_i386.deb

A mirror can be found here http://easylinux.info/uploads/xmms-wma_1.0.4-2_i386.deb

Associate with media files

sudo cp /usr/share/applications/defaults.list /usr/share/applications/defaults.list_backup

sudo cp /usr/share/applications/defaults.list /tmp/defaults.list_tmp

sudo sed -e 's/audio\/mpeg=.*/audio\/mpeg=XMMS.desktop/g' /tmp/defaults.list_tmp > /tmp/defaults.mp3

sudo sed -e 's/audio\/x-mpegurl=.*/audio\/x-mpegurl=XMMS.desktop/g' /tmp/defaults.mp3 > /tmp/defaults.m3u

sudo sed -e 's/audio\/x-wav=.*/audio\/x-wav=XMMS.desktop/g' /tmp/defaults.m3u > /tmp/defaults.list

sudo mv /tmp/defaults.list /usr/share/applications/defaults.list

sudo rm -f /tmp/defaults.*

Thats it. Have a look at Program -> Sound and Video -> XMMS

Comments

Do we really need this page? Rhythmbox and Totem along with all the gstreamer plugins and w32codecs pretty much satisfy media playing requirements. - OnkarShinde

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