Old news

We love our fanboys.

Not only from one, but TWO blogs we picked up on this comment.

"Audacious doesn't support MOD files out of the box. When XMMS came out, MP3's didn't even EXIST!"

That's simply hillarious. As much as we love our fans, I can only say this OMGWTFLOLBBQKORV! Yeah mp3s existed when the project was started, take a wild guess why the project was started and from what player we borrowed the gui and what that player was designed for.

Nov 20, 2006
Thomas Nilsson (thomas at xmms.org)

Bye Bye Gentoo!

Oct 24, 2006
Gaylord Nelson

No news.

DING DONG, IT'S APRIL 27TH AND ALL IS QUIET.

I would like to take the opportunity to say hello to my mother, Hi mother!

In other news there are no news. And as such, I have no reason whatsoever to actually press 'Add Post'.

But.. since we're a nifty old cool gtk+1 application, we have to be insane to actually keep this site up. We SHOULD hide xmms on a obscure japaneese ftp server and you can all go ftpsearch.. oh, I guess we outlived ftpsearch, never mind.

My slippers are gone. Please find them.

Apr 27, 2006
Kniiiiiiiiiiirch

Hello Debian and Debian users

Want to rant about mp3patents? Sure, 2002 called and want their august news back. We love everyone.

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Aug 03, 2005

XMMS2 Development Release 1

Our sister project XMMS2 has now reached Developer Release 1. The target audience for this release is developers, the player is NOT yet ready for public consumption or for replacing XMMS1, RythmBox, AmaroK or MPD. This simply means that the codebase is very nice and developers are encouraged to help creating plugins and clients that will make XMMS2 the de facto standard for music playing, like XMMS1 has been for almost a decade. At this point there are no mature and stable GUI clients, but this preview is released in the hope that the development of interfaces will accelerate. Read more about the XMMS2 project on http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se.

This does not imply the end of XMMS1, we will continue to work on XMMS1 and are still very much interested in more developers and patches. Please drop by any of the channels we occupy on irc.freenode.net either #xmms or #xmms2.

Please note that XMMS and XMMS2 are two seperate projects and thus, do not report xmms2 bugs on the xmms bugzilla, and don't report xmms bugs on the xmms2 mantis :)

See you around.

May 21, 2005
Thomas Nilsson (thomas at xmms.org)

5th Readers Choice award.

For the fifth year in a row XMMS has been voted Favourite Audio Tool by the readers of LinuxJournal.

2004, 2003, 2002, 2001 and 2000

Nov 01, 2004
Thomas Nilsson (thomas at xmms.org)

Congratulations Peter.

Yesterday Peter became the proud father of his first child. We would all like to congratulate him. Best wishes and good luck.

Aug 26, 2004
Thomas Nilsson (thomas at xmms.org)

Missing plugins?

Have you made a plugin or external application for XMMS? Is it missing in our database or is the information out of date? If you've mailed earlier and have not recieved a reply or found your plugin/application in our database, please mail me again. I've tried as much as possible to locate old mails and missing plugins but I'm bound to have missed a few. So if you have any that are missing, feel free to mail me the updates.

Jul 16, 2004
Thomas Nilsson (thomas at xmms.org)

XMMS 1.2.10

XMMS 1.2.10 has been released. This release fixes a bug that could cause programs that control xmms to abort, and some other minor issues.

Feb 23, 2004
Håvard Kvålen (havardk at xmms.org)

Updated XMMS 1.2.9 rpms for Fedora Core 1

The XMMS 1.2.9 rpms we built for Fedora Core 1 had an unnecessary dependency on ALSA (libasound.so.2 in particular). We have now build new rpms that don't have this problem.

Feb 16, 2004
Håvard Kvålen (havardk at xmms.org)

XMMS 1.2.9

XMMS 1.2.9 has been released. Get it on the download page. Mostly bugfixes this time.

Jan 28, 2004
Håvard Kvålen (havardk at xmms.org)

New website

So we've finally had our facelift. I'm still reworking the database backend so there's bound to be a couple of bugs left on the site to weed out. Please drop me a mail if you find anything that's broken.

The main server is still offline and we would really appriciate it if you could sponsor the admin with a small donation to help him get the machines back up. Use the paypal link below to submit your contribution.

Jan 17, 2004
Thomas Nilsson (thomas at xmms.org)

XMMS 1.2.9-pre1

Another pre-release is available. The changes in this release are mostly bugfixes. In particular, the ALSA output plugin should behave a bit better now. As usual, please report any bugs you find.

Jan 17, 2004
Håvard Kvålen (havardk at xmms.org)

Main server down

Our main server has suffered a hd meltdown and is currently being rebuilt. This affects skin downloads and the ftp. We would like to ask for help to bring the server back as quickly as possible. The system admin would appriciate if anyone of our visitors have some hardware to spare.

Our wishlist: some fresh new SCSI drives, either 68pin ones or if possible a few 80pin (SCA) hotswap disks and a nicebackplane/drive cage. It's important that the drives are new, so it'll take longer until it fails.

To send in donations to the server admin (in norway), contact Dag Stenstad (donate at stenstad.net)

The skin pages will remain offline, since the server we're currently running off don't have the capacity for all those downloads.

Jan 06, 2004
Thomas Nilsson (thomas at xmms.org)

Database updates

I'm currently reworking most of the databases, so for the time being all access to the skin pages, plugin comments and guestbook have been disabled. They should be back soon enough, but it might be a couple of days. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Dec 09, 2003
Thomas Nilsson (thomas at xmms.org)

XMMS at Comdex?

O'Reilly is working with COMDEX to organize an Open Source Innovation Area on the COMDEX Exhibit Floor. XMMS is among the 21 nominated projects. If you want to see us at COMDEX, visit www.oreillynet.com/contest/comdex/ and register your vote.

Oct 18, 2003
Thomas Nilsson (thomas at xmms.org)

XMMS 1.2.8

XMMS 1.2.8 has been released. You can find it on the download page. You can also check out the NEWS or the more detailed ChangeLog. Enjoy.

Sep 05, 2003
Håvard Kvålen (havardk at xmms.org)

XMMS 1.2.8-pre1

After a rather long time a new pre-release of XMMS is finally available. This one contains quite a few bugfixes and some new features too. Feel free to give it a spin, and please report any problems you encounter.

Aug 08, 2003
Håvard Kvålen (havardk at xmms.org)

New IP for bugs.xmms.org

We had to move bugs.xmms.org and as a result you might have problems accessing the page until your DNS gets the new ip.

Aug 07, 2003
Thomas Nilsson (thomas at xmms.org)

Website updates

So, after a long time having the page down (and a couple of days with boredom) most of the site has been recoded to work in a much more sane enviroment rather than the hack of a page it previously was.

bugs.xmms.org is back online aswell thanks to Håvard.

If you spot any broken links on our site, please report them to me. Just remember to report where I can find the broken link, since just giving me the broken url don't do me much good since I have limited time where I can work on the pages nowadays.

Jul 08, 2003
Thomas Nilsson (thomas at xmms.org)

Attacks/Broken pages

We've decided to move the site over to a new machine and more bandwidth. Due to the recent attacks against our administrator the machines which where we're hosted are in a terrible mess. The bugzilla doesn't work like it should due to broken perl dependecies etc. We hope you'll have the patience to wait for us to work things out. We'll hopefully begin to move the sites over to the new machine within a week.

Apr 16, 2003
Thomas Nilsson (thomas at xmms.org)

Lots of new / updated plugins.

New additions:
Highly Experimental 0.0.3
This is a port of Neill Corlett's Highly Experimental Winamp plugin for XMMS for i386-based Linux machines. It is a binary only release, and is distributed with no warranty or guarantee whatsoever. Currently it can read and emulate .psf files. It is able to read tag information from files, and it has basic support for MiniPSF and PSFLib files.

EQ Graphical Equalizer 0.4
EQ is a realtime graphical equalizer that will equalize everything that you are playing through XMMS, not just the MP3s.

CXMMS 0.4.7
CXMMS is a little control program for XMMS to control it from the command line. Optionally it's have an Slang/ncurses control screen.

SNESAmp for XMMS
SNESAmp is a plugin for Winamp that emulates SPC files (sound format used in the Super NES). It is full featured and extremely fast, being written almost entirely in assembly. Now it is avaliable to Linux fans (and potentially fans of other Intel-based UNIXes as well) as an input plugin for XMMS, the X Multimedia System.

XMMS mp3cue 0.9
XMMS mp3cue is a plugin that allows you to use XMMS to conveniently navigate through large (or small) audio files. mp3cue can store information related to smaller tracks at specified locations within a single audio file and allows you to select and play any of them conveniently.

CDcover 0.2
CDCover is a plugin for xmms, which displays a graphic dependent on the currently played song. Normal usage would be to display the CD covers for the different songs. The graphics are retrieved from your computer. Therefore searchpaths can be defined, where a corresponding cover is searched for.
Features:

* Define as many different search paths as you need, including wildcards
* Buildin skin, full support for custom skins
* Many different graphic formats (supported formats depend on your gtk installation)
* Automatically resizes the images, and preserves aspect-ratio upon request

CoverViewer 0.1.4
It is a plugin for XMMS, whose main task is to display images: it scans the directory containing the file you are playing, and all the jpeg found will be displayed in the window (in the future I'll add other images probably) It can be a copy of the cover of the album, but why not putting some photos of penguins, so you can have a nice and relaxing slideshow while listening your favourite music? It also try to found the title of the song played, using tags (if it does'nt, it just read the title from xmms) and display it. It creates a personalised skin using the xmms-skin, so your display still look the way you like it. You have buttons (play, pause, etc...) So if you want to minimize xmms and just keep coverviewer, you have all control on the song!

Dumb-XMMS 0.1
DUMB-XMMS is an input plug-in that enables XMMS to use DUMB to play IT, XM, S3M and MOD files. In terms of the interface it is very bare: you can't view the song message or sample names or even the title. However, it is much more accurate than the existing MikMod plug-in or even the ModPlugXMMS plug-in.
Here are the main features of the playback engine:

- Accurate support for low-pass resonant filters for IT files
- Click removal (no volume ramps; music doesn't sound muffled!)
- Fast, accurate seeking: all notes will be present and correct at all times

DUMB is a Freeware library primarily intended for use in games (which is why it currently lacks the ability to read author information).

Updated:
XMMS Album List 0.6, UADE 0.80-pre4, SingIt 0.1.25, XMMS-KDE 3.1beta1, Nebulus 0.5.0, Goodnight 0.3.2, Xmms Alarm 0.3.3, XOSD 2.2.0, XMMS InfoPipe 1.3, xmmspipe 0.5.1 and XMMS Crossfade 0.3.1

Apr 13, 2003

Red Hat 9

The mpg123 plugin for Red Hat 9 can be downloaded here. This plugin is needed to play mp3 files.

Apr 01, 2003
Håvard Kvålen (havardk at xmms.org)

Redhat 8 update

A couple of issues with the latest Redhat 8.0 release of XMMS:

• Can't add/play mp3s.
  Redhat decided to not ship any mp3 decoding software whatsoever in Redhat 8.0 (information), so you'll have a couple of options.
  
  
  
  • Download the mpg123 plugin here
    http://staff.xmms.org/priv/redhat8/
    
    
  • Download a replacement RPM for XMMS
    http://www.gurulabs.com/downloads.html
    http://psyche.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=106
    Users using freshrpms.net for apt-get can grab the package 'xmms-mp3'
    
    
  • Compile and install XMMS from source.
    http://www.xmms.org/download.php
    
  
  
• Segfaults when I start XMMS.
  More information here and here
  
  
• Can't change to standard skin.
  Create an empty folder in your ~/.xmms/Skins dir and use that as skin instead of default, since the Redhat 8 patch changes the skin to Bluecurve if no skin is selected.
  

Nov 05, 2002
Thomas Nilsson (thomas at xmms.org)

Mailing list / Forum

A couple of days ago, the person hosting the XMMS mailinglist decided to put his server to other use, and thus taking the mailinglist offline. I've contacted him about it, and I should get the subscriber information soon enough so we'll hopefully have the mailinglist back soon.

I will soon replace the aged forum which is starting to fall apart with newer versions of libraries and such. I'll try to convert the forums database and keep all login information if possible, otherwise the forum will be wiped clean and started from scratch. Sporum has served it's purpose well, but it's time to move on to newer system.

Stay tuned.

Update: The new forum is now online at forum.xmms.org, please register and repost any question you had unanswered in the old forum.
Update: The new mailinglist is now online at lists.xmms.org

Oct 31, 2002
Thomas Nilsson (thomas at xmms.org)

Missing rpms...

While Håvards site is down you can try the RPMs available at www.gurulabs.com. Note, since we didn't make them, you are not encouraged to mail us about the RPMs from gurulabs. Not that I think it differs from ours in any radical way. :)

Oct 31, 2002
Thomas Nilsson (thomas at xmms.org)

Redhat 8 segfault at start?

Seems this one is biting quite the few people aswell. XMMS will segfault if ARTS isn't installed on your Redhat 8 system. Using the RPMS in the previous post will not help you as they are identical to the Redhat 8 RPMS of XMMS.

More information here [bugs.xmms.org] and here [bugzilla.redhat.com].

Oh well, after all, it's a .0 release :)

Oct 04, 2002
Thomas Nilsson (thomas at xmms.org)

Redhat 8 + Can't play mp3's?

If you are using Redhat 8 and the supplied RPMS of XMMS you will find that it is not possible to load any mp3 files. Redhat was supposed to have a placeholder plugin informing you of the change, but that seems to have gone missing.
Available >> here << is some additional information and a mpg123 RPM for Redhat 8 installation of XMMS.

Hopefully, I've made myself clear on this subject, since Redhat apparently failed to get their message through.

Note to Notting: egg->face

Oct 02, 2002
Thomas Nilsson (thomas at xmms.org)

Statement from Thomson Multimedia, mp3 Licensing

In a posting appearing Tuesday August 27, 2002 on the Web site 'slashdot.org,' an individual cited a change in the mp3 license fee structure of Thomson and Fraunhofer. The writer of the post apparently misread the mp3 licensing conditions, as Thomson's mp3 licensing policy has not experienced any change.

To clarify, since the beginning of our mp3 licensing program in 1995, Thomson has never charged a per unit royalty for freely distributed software decoders. For commercially sold decoders - primarily hardware mp3 players - the per-unit royalty has always been in place since the beginning of the program.

Therefore, there is no change in our licensing policy and we continue to believe that the royalty fees of .75 cents per mp3 player (on average selling over $200 dollars) has no measurable impact on the consumer experience.

Stefan Geyersberger
Business Manager - Audio & Multimedia

Aug 29, 2002

Watch out...

..and you thought emulation was for watching quicktime trailers, playing nintendo games, or just running calc.exe. Think again,
Please welcome Winamp Visualization Plugins for XMMS, available now!

Jun 10, 2002
Thomas Nilsson (thomas at xmms.org)

GTK+2/Glib 2

Today is the day when everyone should stop whining about gtk-/glib-config. XMMS _does not_ use GTK+2/Glib2 (yet), it uses 1.2.x. Gtk+2/Glib2 is not backward compatible with 1.2.x, so there. Don't make me post asciipr0n.

Apr 12, 2002
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...the day after

Mar 06, 2002
gah, shouldn't have

XMMS 1.2.7

XMMS 1.2.7 has been released. NEWS, ChangeLog. Get it from the download page.

This release fixes a bug that caused XMMS to crash on some mp3 files. Upgrading is highly recomended if you are using XMMS 1.2.6.

Mar 04, 2002
The XMMS Team

XMMS 1.2.7-pre1

XMMS 1.2.7-pre1 is available from the download page.

Feb 14, 2002
Håvard Kvålen (havardk at xmms.org)

XMMS 1.2.6

XMMS 1.2.6 has been released. NEWS, ChangeLog. Get it from the download page.

Jan 08, 2002
Håvard Kvålen (havardk at xmms.org)

XMMS 1.2.6-pre2

A bug that caused startup with many command line options to deadlock was fixed. Some bugs with regards to id3v2 tags were fixed. CDDB lookups works better on some discs.

New XMMS pre-release is available from the download page. Please give it a try, and report any problems to bugzilla.

(No, I don't have any imagination what so ever, so the annoucement look just the same, but for you who crave silly names and lenghty announcements, I herby dub this release to "We're-fed-up-with-christmas-food-and-would-much-rather-play-with-a-sledgehammer")

Dec 29, 2001
Fattend XMMS crew

XMMS 1.2.6-pre1

The vorbis plugin again works on little endian computers. The OSS plugin does endian and sign conversion if necessary. Support for extended m3u files. XMMS will now save it's keybindings so you can change them permanently. The esd plugin by default controls the esd stream volume instead of the oss mixer. Various other bugfixes.

New XMMS pre-release is available from the download page. Please give it a try, and report any problems to bugzilla.

Dec 04, 2001
XMMS Crew

Happy birthday XMMS/X11AMP

4 years (1461 days) ago X11AMP 0.4 was released. It's been four great years, and we all hope XMMS will be around for atleast another four years.

I've been with this project since the first release and I've seen developers come and go. Sometimes we almost thought about giving up, but all the users makes it worthwhile... although sometimes I wonder if some of you don't sit around all night and click every inch of XMMS in an evil pattern just dying to find a race condition bug just to annoy us :)

I'm off to eat some cake.

Nov 15, 2001
Thomas Nilsson (thomas at xmms.org)

Favorite Audio Tool

1. xmms 2. mpg123 3. RealAudio

Receiving 58.4% of the total vote, xmms is once again readers' favorite audio tool. Comparatively, none of the others accumulated more than 9%. Grip shows up most amongst the write-ins, and support is still strong for the ogg tools.

Linux Journal article

Oct 15, 2001
Thomas Nilsson (thomas at xmms.org)

OSS/3D Plugin for XMMS released

4Front Technologies announces OSS/3D plugin for XMMS.

Aug 03, 2001
Olle Hällnäs (olle at xmms.org)

XMMS 1.2.5

Released XMMS 1.2.5. NEWS. ChangeLog. Pressrelease. Get it from the download page.

Jun 19, 2001
XMMS Crew

XMMS 1.2.5-pre1

It has been a long time since our last release, but finally, a new pre-release is available from the download page. Please give it a try, and report any problems to bugzilla.

May 11, 2001
Håvard Kvålen (havardk at xmms.org)

Happy birthday!

Today we celebrate our admin for www.xmms.org, since he took over the job of hosting us, there haven't been the slightest of problems, and I'm happy to say that I don't recive any complaints since the change. Thanks a bunch Spacedump, and happy birthday!

May 04, 2001
Thomas Nilsson (thomas at xmms.org)

XMMS 1.2.4

Released XMMS 1.2.4. NEWS. ChangeLog. Get it from the download page.

This release fixes some serious bugs that were introduced with the Icecast udp metadata streaming in XMMS 1.2.3. If you use XMMS to listen to Icecast/Shoutcast streams, upgrading is highly recomended.

Nov 27, 2000
Håvard Kvålen (havardk at xmms.org)

Spatializer StreamFX Effect plugin announced

Spatializer Audio Labs and 4Front Technologies announce StreamFX plugin for XMMS. Read the announce and download the plugin.

Nov 14, 2000
Olle Hällnäs (olle at xmms.org)

XMMS 1.2.4-pre1

A pre release of XMMS 1.2.4 is now available. Get it from the download page.

Nov 08, 2000
Håvard Kvålen (havardk at xmms.org)

RedHat 7.0 update

RedHat has now released updated glibc packages that should fix the problem with XMMS segfaulting on exit.

More info available on RedHat's website.

Oct 09, 2000
Håvard Kvålen (havardk at xmms.org)

REDHAT 7.0 USERS

If you've installed RedHat 7.0 you've probably noticed that XMMS segfaults when you quit. This is because of a probable bug in glibc 2.1.92-14 that's included with RH7.0. There is a temporary fix for this bug in the CVS version of XMMS.

Håvard Kvålen has been nice enough to supply non crashing RPM's for RH7.0. Available here.

Oct 02, 2000
Thomas Nilsson (thomas at xmms.org)

XMMS 1.2.3

Released XMMS 1.2.3 (ChangeLog) goto the download page and grab a copy.

Due to popular demand, there are now diff's for the 1.2.x releases available on the FTP (ftp.xmms.org/xmms/1.2.x). Thanks to Ryan Weaver

Sep 19, 2000
Thomas Nilsson (thomas at xmms.org)

Pre release of 1.2.3

We put up a pre release of 1.2.3 at the Download page fell free to give it a try.

Sep 03, 2000
Olle Hällnäs (olle at xmms.org)

Skin'o'rama

After digging through the great pile of emails I managed to locate 21 new and updated skins which I've FINALLY put online.

If you have mailed me a skin and it's not put online this time either, I've lost it. I got no more mails concerning skins in my mailboxes.

Aug 23, 2000
Thomas Nilsson (thomas at xmms.org)

smpeg-xmms 0.2.5

Today 4Front Technologies released smpeg-xmms 0.2.5, it's an opensource XMMS Input plugin that allows XMMS to playback mpeg video files. Most mpeg features you expect is included like fullscreen, doublesize, resizeable window, seek in fullscreen and much more.

Aug 12, 2000
Olle Hällnäs (olle at xmms.org)

XMMS 1.2.2

Released XMMS 1.2.2 (ChangeLog) goto the download page and grab a copy.

Jul 11, 2000
Olle Hällnäs (olle at xmms.org)

*sigh*

A few new skins has been added to the skin page.. Nothing that warrants a news announcement like this though, but apparently I had done something really wrong with the update script.

Thanks to Attyz for bringing this to my attention. What puzzles me is that about 100-300 people have tried to download one of the new skins and noone botherd to email me about it :) Darn.. shame on you :) (guess i should test everything when i update.. but i'm no übermensch.)

Everything is jake for sure..

Jul 09, 2000
Thomas Nilsson (thomas at xmms.org)

Playlist bug in XMMS 1.2.0 / 1.2.1

If you're not getting any text in your XMMS Playlist window, start XMMS, press CTRL-P to bring up the preferences window. Go to the options tab, and on the bottom press browse and choose a new font. That should fix the sillyness :)

Jun 25, 2000
Thomas Nilsson (thomas at xmms.org)

XMMS 1.2.1

Released XMMS 1.2.1 (ChangeLog) goto the download page and grab a copy.

Jun 19, 2000
Olle Hällnäs (olle at xmms.org)

Whoa there..

Here to download XMMS 1.2.0? My best suggestion to you would be this: Wait until we release 1.2.1, or use the CVS version instead. Seems there is a nasty bug in 1.2.0, which causes XMMS to freeze if you add songs from the command line.

XMMS 1.2.1 is expected to be out on friday or saturday.

Fixes freeze, workaround for Solaris assembler and a workaround for a clash between kernel and libc headers on some broken linux systems.

World peace has been delayed until further notice.

Jun 14, 2000
John Doe

XMMS 1.2.0

Released XMMS 1.2.0 (ChangeLog) goto the download page and grab a copy.

Jun 12, 2000
Olle Hällnäs (olle at xmms.org)

Banoookh

Added comment system to the Skin and Plugin pages. Also the recently added skins are online again. Mental Note: 6am scripting is BAD.

Jun 12, 2000
Thomas (thomas at xmms.org)

New skin pages.

The skin pages has been changed (to the better I hope). It's now sortable by Date/Name/Downloads.

I will add the skins that I've recived since the last update of the skin page (which was in february). I promise that updates will be done much faster now.

Enjoy.

May 29, 2000
Thomas (thomas at xmms.org)

Changes and updates.

Changed the navigation of the site to display all the links as we previously had. Seems noone understood my logic :)

Also finally changed next version to reflect upon the latest changes in the CVS.

May 25, 2000
Thomas (thomas at xmms.org)

Dingalingdingdong.

As you might have noticed, I changed the way which we keep track of the plugins / programs made for XMMS. During the change, I might have introduced a couple of errors in the database, so I would like to ask all of you plugin authors to check so that your plugin(s) are listed, and if the information is correct.

If you find any errors, please email me and I'll update them a.s.a.p.

May 04, 2000
Thomas Nilsson (thomas at xmms.org)

New site design

Got the blues? Hell no, I'm quite happy that I've finally managed to replace the old design/code. Hopefully this page will load faster, and be less overhead for your browser. (And that silly 'bug' with my tables that prevented Netscape users to snap text off the pages is finally gone :). If you have some rants about the new layout feel free to mail me, but since I'm a lazy person I doubt I'll obey every thought you have about improvements etc. :) But I'd be happy if you mailed me some bugreports for me to fix.

Mar 17, 2000
Thomas (thomas at xmms.org)

'Mommy, I heard it on the radio'

We don't really know what happend, but man came down from the scottish highlands, he had brought something with him. In his hands, wrapped in his clans colors the first version of LiveIce XMMS laid. He whispers something about a Gathering, and that we need to prepare ourself. To help the rest of you, we've taken his gift and made it public. We hid it in the plugins section to avoid it from falling into the wrong hands.

Thank you Scott Manley.

Feb 03, 2000
XMMS Team - Fit for fight

XMMS 1.0.1 RELEASED!

XMMS 1.0.1 has been released with the bugfixes as promised. Grab your copy at the Download page.

Read the ChangeLog to get more info.

Jan 29, 2000
XMMS Team

Aureal Owners + Qsound + Old Plugins

If you own a Aureal soundcard and are using the Aureal drivers, XMMS 1.0.0 won't work. This bug has been fixed in the CVS and XMMS 1.0.1 will be released later today.

Also if you experince that the QSound plugin (or older plugins which you compiled before you installed XMMS 1.0.0) isn't working anymore, simply create a symlink for libxmms.so.0 pointing to libxmms.so.1

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Jan 28, 2000
The redeyed XMMS team

XMMS 1.0.0 RELEASED!

XMMS 1.0.0 has been released and should be consider stable. Grab your copy at the Download page.

Read the pressrelease and the ChangeLog to get more info.

Jan 27, 2000
XMMS Team

XMMS Competition Results

And now the XMMS Competition is over and here are the results:

1. XMMS Speakers 2.0 with 148 votes. Made by Kristoffer Brånemyr.
2. Jakdaw's XMMS Plugin 0.0.3 with 138 votes. Made by Christopher Wilson.
3. Kint XMMS 0.93 with 74 votes. Made by Tim Ferguson.

Jan 25, 2000
XMMS Team

SlashDot Vote

On slashdot there is a competiton going on and XMMS are nominated in 2 areas, Best Unix Earcandy and Best Designed Interface in a Graphical Application. So head over to slashdot and vote for XMMS :)

Jan 19, 2000
XMMS Team

XMMS Competition

Competition is over and now it's time for YOU, the users, to vote for the best plugin. Browse to the voting page and do your job. Ends January the 24th.

Jan 11, 2000
XMMS Team

XMMS Forum

We installed a Forum system, it should be easy to use and you can share your experiances. Enjoy it. Oh, you'll need to accept cookies in your browser to be able to login.

Nov 26, 1999
Olle and Thomas

Extended Competition Deadline

We have extended the plugin competition deadline to the 10'th of January, 2000. Since none of the current XMMS staff is going to school, we forgot that this is a hectic period of exams. It's also fun to announce that we have improved the prizes.

Prizes:
1st prize: $100 in cash + Soundcard (SB PCI16 (ES1373 - AudioPCI)) + OSS license + QSound plugin (Value $175.00)
2nd prize: $50 in cash + OSS license + QSound plugin (Value $90.00)
3rd prize: $25 in cash + OSS license (Value $55.00)

Nov 25, 1999
The whole merry gang

Compo plugins

We are getting some plugins and updates for those plugins, look at the compo plugin page. Give these plugins a try and remember to start vote for the best plugin when the competition is done.
Coders.. start making plugins now :-) info about the competition can be found here.

Nov 21, 1999
Olle (olle at xmms.org)

QSound iQ plugin

We are proud to announce that we have release QSound iQ plugin for XMMS. This plugin enhances the sound quality. Read the pressrelease and go to iQ plugin page.

Nov 10, 1999
4Front and the XMMS folks

Plugin Competition

Today is the launch day of the plugin competition. We want all of you crafty programmers out there to send in your plugins for XMMS and be a part of the competition. We will give away prizes to the best plugins (which YOU decide). Please check it out.

Nov 10, 1999
The gang

Plugins

For all of you out there looking for XMMS plugins I have put together a plugin page. Some of the plugins there are really good and useful and we'll try to update it as often as possible. Please mail Olle if you know any more plugins to put on this page.

Nov 01, 1999
Olle (olle at xmms.org)

VQF Plugin

For all of you that were wanting a VQF plugin, it's time to break out the party hats and pour yourself a big glass of milk. 1000 monkeys typing at random managed with the weird task of using the windows dll file thru WINE and wrote a xmms plugin for it. It's available on Mel Gorman's (gormo@csn.ul.ie) homepage.

Oct 28, 1999
Olle and Thomas