Potezna maszyna z pentium mmx 200mhz i 32mb ramu taktowanego zabojczymi 66mhz! Film przedstawia slackware 11 z xmms i atermem pod fluxboxem. System powstawiony w piatek, skonfigurowany w sobote a nagrany dzisiaj ^^

Film :

Screen :

Muchos de nosotros somos vagos. Y si vemos nuestras series o películas favoritas o escuchamos nuestras bandas de renombre (?) queremos hacerlo acostados en nuestras camas, sin tener que levantarnos para retroceder, bajar el volumen, subirlo, o demás funciones que requerirían el uso de nuestras piernas y nuestra salud mental.

Lamentablemente los poderes mentales no existen para ayudarnos en estos casos, pero si tenés un joystick y el paquete “joystick” instalado en tu distribución (suele venir por defecto) podremos utilizar nuestro mando como una suerte de control remoto para controlar diversos programas en GNU/Linux.

Primero, ¿Cómo sé si mi joystick es reconocido por mi distribución?
Simplemente tecleá esto en la consola:

$ cat /dev/input/js0

Si a continuación nos aparecen caracteres extraños, vamos bien. Lo que hay que hacer es tomar el joystick y presionar botones. Si ves que aparecen aún más caracteres en la consola, significa que está funcionando correctamente.

Usar joystick como control remoto en Mplayer
Lamentablemente no conseguí esto utilizando SMPlayer (mi GUI favorita de este reproductor), pero les aseguro que lo que hay que hacer es extremadamente sencillo.

$ mplayer video.avi -joystick

Si tu mplayer está compilado con esta función (en Fedora 11 el paquete parece funcionar sin tener que volver a compilar) no habría que hacer nada más. Obviamente “video.avi” es la ubicación de nuestro video y el formato puede ser cualquiera.

Con esto el video ya empezará a reproducirse y podrás usar tu mando para funciones como cambiar volumen, detener el video, adelantar o retroceder, etc. En mi joystick (que resulta ser el de Playstation 2) los botones direccionales (derecha e izquierda) del pad digital sirven para cambiar el volumen. Triángulo funcionaría como Stop.

Usar joystick como control remoto para la música (XMMS)
El programa XMMS (un poco viejito, pero sigue siendo mi reproductor favorito) tiene un plugin llamado Control por joystick. Se puede acceder a el mediante el menú Opciones > Preferencias > Plugins generales. La configuración es muy sencilla, nos permite elegir los botones y las funciones que deseemos “bindear“.

Eso sería básicamente todo. Quería dejar constancia de esta curiosa forma de utilizar un aparato que, en un primer vistazo, solo sirve para jugar videojuegos.

Voici une liste des programmes audio vidéo qui prennent en charge ce casque qui est compatible windows/mac, mais comme j’ai fait l’expérience depuis quelques jours, il est aussi compatible en bonne parti sous linux   Tout ça testé uniquement sous ubuntu 9.04.

Après avoir branché le casque et l’adaptateur sans fil, qui va avec, les pilotes de ce casque sont reconnus sous linux. Maintenant il faut faire quelques “bricoles” pour que ça marche.
- D’abord, dans le terminal il faut taper ~$ cat /proc/asound/cards
Vous devez obtenir le résultat suivant:

- Ensuite, je configure la carte son: système → préférences → son en choisissant la configuration suivante:

Pour le volume j’ouvre applet de volume

et ensuite je choisi la configuration suivante:

Voilà, tout devra marcher aussi bien pour skype que pour quelques programmes pour qui j’ai réussi à utiliser ce casque.

Pour skype, rien de plus simple que de choisir la configuration suivante et tout marche comme sur les roulettes:

Voici quelques programmes qui prennent en charge le casque sans aucune intervention:
Banshee,
Rhythmbox
et Totem.
C’est déjà une bonne nouvelle. Pour quelques autres par contre il faut faire quelques manipulations.
- Xmms – là il faut configurer la sortie son de façon suivante:
choisir greffon de sortie ALSA

ensuite appuyer sur configurer pour choisir comme carte de mixage: logitech


Cela doit fonctionner comme c’est le cas chez moi.
- Kaffeine – comment dire… je ne sais pas pourquoi mais il faut faire une petite manipulation à chaque ouverture de Kaffeine car les options choisies à la fermeture ne sont pas mémorisées. Mais l’essentiel que cela fonctionne n’est-ce pas ? Voici ce que je fais à chaque ouverture. J’ouvre la configuration du moteur xine

et ensuite je choisis pilote audio à utiliser « oss » . A l’ouverture de Kaffeine il est bien comme tel mais ça ne fonctionne pas, il faut donc prendre un autre pilote en changeant « oss » à n’importe quoi et revenir ensuite à « oss » et ça marche

- SMpalyer, frère de Mplayer, donne des résultats très bons contrairement à Mplayer où je n’ai pas réussi à utiliser le casque wireless Pour faire fonctionner le casque il suffit juste de choisir pilote de sortie dans les options:

Avec le retour à Ubuntu pour quelques raisons pratiques, voici le nouveau look sous gnome. Sobre et claire: http://egnu.deviantart.com/art/dark-ubuntu-133077360

wallpaper – dark apple: http://mickka.deviantart.com/art/Dark-Apple-104482058
icônes – Mac4Lin Icones : http://sourceforge.net/projects/mac4lin/
icônes du tableau de bord – Token dark icônes : http://brsev.deviantart.com/art/Token-128429570
screenlets – widescapeweather : http://www.isi.edu/~varunr/WidescapeWeather.tar.gz
emerald – gpefection: http://duttybreakage.deviantart.com/art/xPerfection-emerald-85286676
xmms skin – bunjee skin: http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=72287

(عکس از ویکی پدیا)

همونطور که می دونید، نرم افزار پخش موسیقی XMMS (که مخفف X MultiMedia System است) بعد از Gutsy از مخازن اوبونتو پاک شده است. اما این نرم افزار پخش موسیفی که خیلی سبک هم است، طرفداران زیادی داشت که بعضی ها مجبور شدند به Audacious که مشابه XMMS هست، مهاجرت کنند یا XMMS رو از سورس کامپایل کنند. اما راستش من زیاد از Audacious خوشم نیامد.

اما خب، هیچ کاری در لینوکس محال نیست! باید با خوشحالی بگویم که یک مخزن (Repository) برای XMMS ایجاد شده که از دبیان و اوبونتو پشتیبانی می کند. آدرس مخزن اینه:

http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~knuta/xmms

برای اینکه به مخازن تان اضافه اش کنید، این کارها را انجام دهید:

ابتدا در ترمینال: sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

بعد بسته به اینکه دبیان استفاده می کنید یا اوبونتو(و نسخه اش) این کد ها را به فایل باز شده اضافه کنید(ترجیحا در انتهایش):

دبیان Lenny:

deb http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~knuta/xmms/lenny ./
deb-src http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~knuta/xmms/lenny ./

اوبونتو 8.04:

deb http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~knuta/xmms/hardy ./
deb-src http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~knuta/xmms/hardy ./

اوبونتو 9.04:

deb http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~knuta/xmms/jaunty ./
deb-src http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~knuta/xmms/jaunty ./

بعد فایل رو ذخیره کنید و این دستور رو در ترمنیال وارد کنید:

sudo aptitude update && aptitude install xmms

حالا XMMS رو از Applications==> Sound & Video اجرا کنید.

موفق باشید

پ.ن: این مخازن برای نسخه های ۶۴ بیتی هم هست.

پ.ن۲: سطر دوم هر مخزن برای نسخه سورس اش است که می توانید اضافه اش نکنید(همون کاری که من می کنم )

Okay.  New plan.

MPD is out as i can’t get it to work.

I tried XMMS2 and GXMMS2.  I managed to get GXMMS2 to play via the server when installed on the localhost but it seems there is no way to get it to play via client/network control as yet.

Seeking advice on www.avforums.com, i was pointed in the direction of SqueezeCentre and SoftSqueeze.  I am very impressed to far.

Installs eastily and very easy to work.

Will post more as it happens! 

Durante mucho tiempo utilice a xmms como mi reproductor preferido, ya que se asemejaba a WinAmp aunque mas ligero, sencillo, reproducía prácticamente todo archivo de audio y tenia plugins para hacer casi de todo. Pero lo malo es que estaba bastante viejo (usaba gtk1 ) y últimamente estaba desapareciendo de muchas distros (debian incluida), así que decidí probar xmms2 (ante que alguien mencione amarok, intento evitar las librerías qt en mi sistema).

Lo bueno es que casi no consume recursos del sistema, aunque la primera vez cuesta entender como funciona, ya que sigue un modelo de cliente/servidor, o sea el XMMS2 funciona similar a un daemon sin interfaz gráfica y uno se conecta a él a travez de un cliente. En un principio esto parece raro, pero tiene su gracia, ya que permite hacer cosas como que si estas fuera de casa desde otro equipo puedas escuchar la musica que hay en tu pc.

Siguiendo con el tema, uno puede controlar directamente xmms2 desde una terminal, o usar algún cliente que sirva de frontend (como gxmms2, esperanza, o cualquier otro de la lista), en lo personal aun no encuentro ninguno que me convenza al 100% pero solo es cuestión de tiempo (mientras voy a seguir controlándolo desde una terminal, ya que no me importa demasiado que quede funcionando en el fondo)

Otra cosa bastante agradable es que al igual que su antecesor tiene muchos plugins, como uno para karaoke aunque entre ellos destaca el xmms2-scrobbler que envía la lista temas escuchados a lastfm (para configurarlo miren por aquí)

En definitiva me gusto bastante (va a ser el remplazo de mi antiguo reproductor), lo único malo es que aun no encuentro un frontend que me convenza completamente, aunque eso se puede arreglar. Lo destacable es que funciona en varios sistemas (incluso el de las ventanas)

Xmms ha sido el reproductor ligero por excelencia, pero como sabemos su desarrollo se ha congelado o algo así. Ha habido proyectos que han tomado el mismo ideal de XMMS como Audacious, BMPx, XMMS2. Ahora esta este nuevo proyecto ruso llamado Qmmp, el cual es un reproductor escrito en Qt, basado en la apariencia de Winamp o XMMS. Puede reproducir los archivos de audio mas populares como mp3, ogg, flac, wma; adames cuenta con compatibilidad con los skins de Winamp (classic) y XMMS y cuenta con soporte para streaming de mp3, vorbis.

A primera vista tiene un aspecto familiar a XMMS, solo que el muen de configuración es mas ordenado. El rendimiento es excelente, y su consumo de memoria es menor que audacious (13 de qmmp contra 17 de audacious).

En la pagina del proyecto se encuentran las maneras de instalarlo en diferentes distribuciones. En Ubuntu se encuentra en los repositorios de Jaunty:

sudo apt-get install qmmp

Espero que les haya servido.

Sayonara

XMMS no ha muerto!

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~knuta/xmms/intrepid ./
deb-src http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~knuta/xmms/intrepid ./
Enjoy!

Supaya tidak lupa lagi, saya akan mencoba menuliskan berbagai dokumen teknis yang telah saya lakukan pada pada blog ini.

Tentang bagaimana pentingnya menulis dokumen teknis dapat dibaca disini.

Kalau sudah terbiasa menggunakan windows, salah satu aplikasi dalam memainkan format mp3 yang populer adalah winamp. Nah, di linux ada salah satu padanannya yang sama baiknya: XMMS

Memasang xmms pada ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex):
Dapat langsung dibaca disini, atau langkah – langkahnya sebagai berikut:

$sudo su

1. nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Tambahkan kedua baris berikut:

deb http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~knuta/xmms/intrepid ./
deb-src http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~knuta/xmms/intrepid ./

ctrl + o
ctrl + x

#aptitude update && aptitude xmmx

Cuman kadang update nya macet, karena itu dapat juga dilakukan secara manual:

Unduh paket xmms -nya di http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~knuta/xmms/intrepid/xmms_1.2.11-1_i386.deb (pake wget, aria2, DownThemAll, dll)

Pindah ke lokasi path tempat file tersebut disimpan.

#dpkg -i xmms_1.2.11-1_i386.deb

Jalankan xmms
$xmms

Setelah itu pasang shorcut di desktop atau menu bar.

Först och främst, vi vet alla att XMMS är en ‘gammal’ mediaspelare men den är inget mediabibliotek utan den spelar musik. Precis vad jag i alla fall är ute efter. Den är dessutom smidig.

Först måste vi hämta ett gäng paket för att du kunna kompilera XMMS.
Öppna en terminal och skriv:

sudo apt-get install autotools-dev automake1.9 libtool gettext libasound2-dev libaudiofile-dev
libgl1-mesa-dev libglib1.2-dev libgtk1.2-dev libesd0-dev libice-dev libmikmod2-dev libogg-dev
libsm-dev libvorbis-dev libxxf86vm-dev libxml-dev libssl-dev build-essential make

libxml-dev är inte nödvändig, ibland klagar apt på den så den är lugn att ta bort ur installationen.

Skapa en ny mapp i din hemmapp (den är default när du startar en terminal), skriv sedan följande för att skapa en ny mapp där:

mkdir ~/build

Gå sedan in i den nya mappen med följande:

cd ~/build

Nu ska vi ladda ner XMMS-source’en från deras hemsida:

wget http://xmms.org/files/1.2.x/xmms-1.2.11.tar.gz

Packa upp den med:

tar xvf xmms-1.2.11.tar.gz

Gå in i den nya mappen:

cd xmms-1.2.11/

Nu till själva kompileringen:

./configure –prefix=/usr

Detta genererar nödvändiga filer och kollar ditt system

Själva kompileringen:

sudo make

Till sist installationen:

sudo make install

Grattis! Du har nu laddat ner source, kompilerat och installerat XMMS

Om du vill kan du nu ta bort mappen med source’en i.
cd
rm -rf ~/build

Så, nu är XMMS installerat och du kan starta det med Alt+F2.

Hur man gör en länk till det i Program-menyn tänker jag gå genom i en annan artikel.

Sungguh disayangkan xmms yang menjadi player populer dikalangan linuxer malah tak disertakan dalam repositori ubuntu terbaru hardy herron. Sayang beribu sayang, jujur saja saya sedikit kecewa dengan keputusan tim ubuntu 8.04 yang menghapus xmms dari daftar repositori mereka. Hal ini juga terjadi pada distro lain seperti gentoo dan slackware. Mereka juga tidak menyertakan lagi xmms dalam paket repositorinya.

Tapi tidak perlu lama larut dalam kesedihan, banyak cara yang dapat kita tempuh untuk menghadirkan kembali xmms ke dalam ubuntu. Linux gitu lho… ga bisa dengan cara A gunakan cara B, tidak bisa juga dengan cara B gunakan cara C, masih tidak bisa juga, matiin aja komputernya. hahahahaha.

Ini caranya :

Jika anda baru menginstall ubuntu 8.04 ada baiknya anda mengupdate sistem anda terlebih dahulu.

$ sudo apt-get update

Setelah itu gunakan perintah berikut :

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential

Perintah diatas penting, karena nantinya kita akan mengkompile file dalam bentuk tar.gz. Jika tidak kita tidak akan bisa menggunakan perintah make atau make install.

Lanjut….

Setelah selesai dengan perintah di atas kita mulai dengan menginstall paket dependensi XMMS.

$ sudo apt-get install autotools-dev automake1.9 libtool gettext libasound2-dev libaudiofile-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libglib1.2-dev libgtk1.2-dev libesd0-dev libice-dev libmikmod2-dev libogg-dev libsm-dev libvorbis-dev libxxf86vm-dev libxml-dev libssl-dev

Selesai dengan paket dependensi XMMS, kita buatkan direktori untuk nantinya kita letakkan file tar.gz yang kita download di direktori /home/user (nama anda). Terserah saja nama direktori tersebut, misal:

$ mkdir ~/download

kemudian masuk ke direktori download yang baru kita buat dengan perintah :

$ cd ~/download

Sekarang saatnya dengan meneruskan mendownload file XMMS, gunakan perintah :

$ wget -c http://xmms.org/files/1.2.x/xmms-1.2.11.tar.gz

Setelah selesai mendownload ekstrak file tersebut.

$ tar xvf xmms-1.2.11.tar.gz.

Kemudian masuk ke direktori xmms-1.2.11 yang baru di ekstrak

$ cd xmms-1.2.11

Sekarang kita perlu mengkonfigurasikan XMMS.

$ ./configure –prefix=/usr

Jika telah selesai, lanjutkan dengan mengkomplile file dan menginstall XMMS

$ make
$ sudo make install

Nah setelah selesai mengkompile tinggal membuat shortcut ke dalam menu application. Klik kanan pada menu Application di bar atas, pilih edit menus. Setelah itu muncul box main menu pilih di bagian menus sound & video. Klik new item dan isikan

Nah sekarang XMMS sudah bisa dinikmati lagi di Ubuntu…

Referensi : http://blog.sartek.net

Quì di seguito voglio suggerirvi una serie di applicazioni in grado di eseguire egregiamente ogni compito e che non sia avida di risorse.

Per la creazione di un ambiente desktop minimale suggerisco di partire da fluxbox e lasciar perdere gnome e kde (già di loro avidi di risorse rispetto a fluxbox che è un smplice gestore di finestre). In un prossimo articolo farò anche una breve guida sulla configurazione di quest’ultimo

Di pannelli ce ne sono un’infinità: fspanel, pypanel, fbpanel, etc… ma io mi trovo molto bene con fbpanel. Davvero essenziale e modificabile tramite un file nella home .fbpanel/default. Il file risulta essere di facile lettura e modifica.

Come applicazione per gestire la posta sylpheed fa tutto quello che ci potremmo attendere con un consumo di risorse irrisorio rispetto al più famoso evolution. Certo dimenticatevi alcune feature, ma se vi serve un semplice gestore per la posta sylpheed fa al caso vostro

Per navigare tra le finestre un ottimo programma è sicuramente pcmanfm, molto simile a nautilus. In realtà di file manager ce ne sono diversi (come ogni cosa in gnu/linux), ma questo è quello che più mi sembra intuitivo. Se vi va di provare potete benissimo installare anche rox, ancora più minimale

Per ascoltare la musica il mio suggerimento è sempre uno solo: “xmms“. Ormai non aggiornato da diversi anni, ma resta ancora uno dei migliori software in circolazione per me. Molte distro non contengono più xmms nei repo (non fatevi ingannare con xmms2), ma si può scaricare dal web e compilarlo senza troppe difficoltà.

Gimp è un programma eccezionale, ma quanti di noi uilizzano tutte le sue utility? un sostituto perfetto se non si devono fare grandi opere di grafica risulta essere mtpaint, provare per credere.

Un’ ultima accortenza potrebbe essere il simulatore di terminale (gnome-terminal o konsole). In questo caso xterm risulta davvero essenziale e adatto ai nostri scopi.

Ora facciamo un discorso sugli editor di testo

Un editor di testo davvero essenziale è nedit, ma ovviamente da un editor (in certe occasioni) ci aspetteremmo sicuramente di più ed ecco che entra in scena abiword. Semplicemente perfetto e sicuramente molto meno esoso del suo equivalente oowriter di openoffice.org

Un altro ottimo editor che mi sento di suggerirvi è medit. Semplicemente eccezionale, sia per programmare che per modificare semplici file. Include un terminale al suo interno e supporta vari tipi di linguaggi.

Con questo si chiude la mia personale carrellata di software minimali. Aspetto suggerimenti per provarne altri ed eventualmente inserirli

Si les gusta tener en el panel varios applets, aqui hay uno que les permite manejar su reproductor favorito:

Music Applet tiene soporte para Amarok, Amarok2, Audaciouos, Banshee(pre-1.0), Banshee, Exaile, MPD, Muine, Quod Libet, Rythmbox, VLC, XMMS, XMMS2.

Lo pueden bajar de aquí(paquete deb).

Nota: Si usan amarok 1, y no los deja usarlo en complementos, instalen:

sudo aptitude install python-kde3

sudo aptitude install python-dcop

Bueno  pues espero que les sirva de algo

XMMS es un reproductor de archivos de audio para entornos Unix (léase GNU/Linux, *BSD, entre otros). Su nombre se debe a las siglas de X MultiMedia System.

XMMS nació en 1997 como una alternativa libre de WinAmp. Ya que no corría sobre Windows sino sobre el entorno de ventanas de Unix (denominado X11) se bautizó como X11amp. En noviembre de ese año fue liberada al público la primera versión. Entre 1997 y 1999 se crearon cinco versiones del reproductor, hasta que en este año se creó la primera versión estable en la que el programa pasó a denominarse XMMS.

XMMS supone en la actualidad una estupenda alternativa a los reproductores más conocidos, como WinAmp o Windows MediaPlayer: al ser libre, XMMS ha sido mejorado sustancialmente de forma que ha ganado en estabilidad y velocidad. Sus capacidades se han disparado gracias a las ampliaciones mediante plugins de forma que podemos disfrutar de un sistema multimedia eficiente, ligero, versátil, seguro y gratuito.

http://www.xmms.org

para instalar el xmms vamos a la consola y escribimos:

$ sudo apt-get install autotools-dev automake1.9 libtool gettext libasound2-dev libaudiofile-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libglib1.2-dev libgtk1.2-dev libesd0-dev libice-dev libmikmod2-dev libogg-dev libsm-dev libvorbis-dev libxxf86vm-dev libxml-dev libssl-dev build-essential make

dependiendo de la velocidad de descarga y tu pc se demorara un poco este paso

despues preparamos al xmms para compilarlo
para esto creamos una carpeta en home
# mkdir ~/build
nos cambiamos al directorio

# cd ~/build

descargamos la fuente

# wget http://xmms.org/files/1.2.x/xmms-1.2.11.tar.gz

descomprimimos

# tar xvf xmms-1.2.11.tar.gz

cambiamos al directorio en el cual descomprimimos

# cd xmms-1.2.11/

A compilar XMMS

generamos los paquetes requeridos para XMMS

# ./configure --prefix=/usr

ahora make

# make

y al final instalamos XMMS

# sudo make install

una vez hecho todo esto tendremos listo el XMMS bastara con apretas Alt+f2 y ahi escribir xmms + ENTER y tendremos nuestro reproductor o bien podemos crear un lanzador en el escritorio para tenerlo más a mano

How to install xmms in linux?

xmms is a program to play mp3 files in linux, it has its own ecualizer and it looks like winamp for windows.

To install it, we have to get the xmms-1.2.11.tar.gz from the internet and extract the file, then enter to the extracted directory
and write:
./configure –prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install

if all these lines don’t work, then do

1. sudo apt-get install build-essential

2. sudo apt-get install autotools-dev automake1.9 libtool gettext libasound2-dev libaudiofile-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libglib1.2-dev libgtk1.2-dev libesd0-dev libice-dev libmikmod2-dev libogg-dev libsm-dev libvorbis-dev libxxf86vm-dev libxml-dev libssl-dev

(yes, copy all and paste in the terminal)

then go to the extracted file again and do
./configure –prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install

Finally press ALT + F2, and write: xmms
(to run the program)

…porque XMMS es todavia el music player favorito de muchos!

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Questo post è più un appunto che un vero HOWTO. Con lo script di cui presento il codice è possibile ottenere degli aggiornamenti mirati del messaggio di stato (e dello stato stesso) in occasione di eventi prestabiliti, ad esempio la riproduzione di un file multimediale. Per accostarvi allo scenario potete pensarlo come una versione un po’ più rozza dei plugin che, in altri programmi di messaggistica istantanea, prelevano il titolo della canzone in riproduzione da un player.

L’utilizzo di uno script esterno permette ad applicazioni che non dispongono naturalmente di una tale capacità (come il mio attuale player audio, Audacious) di cambiare il messaggio di stato di Pidgin.

Perchè tutto funzioni correttamente, è necessario che DBUS sia attivato e supportato dalla vostra copia di Pidgin. Ecco il sorgente dello script:

#!/bin/bash
APPNAME=$(basename $0)
PARAMETERS="$2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 $8 $9"

GREP=$(which grep)
AWK=$(which awk)
SED=$(which sed)
ECHO=$(which echo)
PURPLE_REMOTE=$(which purple-remote)
PURPLE_SEND=$(which purple-send)
PS=$(which ps)
CAT=$(which cat)
RM=$(which rm)

CURRENT_STATUS=$($PURPLE_REMOTE getstatus)
TEMPFILE_STATUS_MESSAGE=$HOME/$APPNAME.dbus-$($PS ax | $GREP -m1 "dbus-daemon" | $AWK '{ print $1 }').status-message
TEMPFILE_STATUS=$HOME/$APPNAME.dbus-$($PS ax | $GREP -m1 "dbus-daemon" | $AWK '{ print $1}').status

case "$1" in

"--backup-status" )
	if [ -f $TEMPFILE_STATUS ]; then
		$RM $TEMPFILE_STATUS
	fi
	$ECHO $CURRENT_STATUS >> $TEMPFILE_STATUS
	;;

"--backup-status-message" )
	if [ -f $TEMPFILE_STATUS_MESSAGE ]; then
		$RM $TEMPFILE_STATUS_MESSAGE
	fi
	CURRENT_STATUS_ID=$($PURPLE_SEND PurpleSavedstatusGetCurrent | $GREP int32 | $AWK '{ print $2 }')
	CURRENT_STATUS_MESSAGE=$($PURPLE_SEND PurpleSavedstatusGetMessage int32:$CURRENT_STATUS_ID | $GREP string | $SED -e "s/string//g" -e "s/\"//g" -e "s/    //g")
	$ECHO $CURRENT_STATUS_MESSAGE >> $TEMPFILE_STATUS_MESSAGE
	;;

"--set-status" )
	$PURPLE_REMOTE setstatus?status="$2"
	;;

"--set-status-message" )
	$PURPLE_REMOTE setstatus?status=$CURRENT_STATUS\&message="$PARAMETERS"
	;;

"--safe-set-status" )
	if [ ! -f $TEMPFILE_STATUS ]; then
		$0 --backup-status
	fi
	$0 --set-status $2
	;;

"--safe-set-status-message" )
	if [ ! -f $TEMPFILE_STATUS_MESSAGE ]; then
		$0 --backup-status-message
	fi
	$0 --set-status-message $PARAMETERS
	;;

"--clear-status" )
	$0 --set-status ""
	;;

"--clear-status-message" )
	$0 --set-status-message ""
	;;

"--restore-status" )
	OLD_STATUS=$($CAT $TEMPFILE_STATUS)
	$0 --set-status "$OLD_STATUS"
	if [ -f $TEMPFILE_STATUS ]; then
		$RM $TEMPFILE_STATUS
	fi
	;;

"--restore-status-message" )
	OLD_STATUS_MESSAGE=$($CAT $TEMPFILE_STATUS_MESSAGE)
	$0 --set-status-message "$OLD_STATUS_MESSAGE"
	if [ -f $TEMPFILE_STATUS_MESSAGE ]; then
		$RM $TEMPFILE_STATUS_MESSAGE
	fi
	;;

*)
	$ECHO "$APPNAME: Wraps itself around the Pidgin command line utilities to (re)set, backup and restore"
	$ECHO "the status message."
	$ECHO ""
	$ECHO "Hacked together by Emanuele Cipolla <bugs @emanuelecipolla.net>, 2008."
	$ECHO "This script is released into the public domain."
	$ECHO ""
	$ECHO "WARNING: You _have to_ use a single option per run, no verification or simultaneous execution"
	$ECHO "is made."
	$ECHO ""
	$ECHO "SYNOPSIS: $APPNAME [--backup-status]"
	$ECHO "[--backup-status-message]"
	$ECHO "[--set-status] [[status]]"
	$ECHO "[--set-status-message] [[message]] [[...]]"
	$ECHO "[--clear-status]"
	$ECHO "[--clear-status-message]"
	$ECHO "[--restore-status]"
	$ECHO "[--restore-status-message]"
	$ECHO ""
	$ECHO "--backup-status                 Backups the current status to $TEMPFILE_STATUS."
	$ECHO "--backup-status-message         Backups the current status message to $TEMPFILE_STATUS_MESSAGE."
	$ECHO "--set-status                    Sets the status."
	$ECHO "--set-status-message            Sets the status message."
	$ECHO "--safe-set-status               Sets the status after backing up the old one."
	$ECHO "--safe-set-status-message       Sets the status message after backing up the old one."
	$ECHO "--clear-status                  Resets status to \"Online\"."
	$ECHO "--clear-status-message          Sets a blank status message."
	$ECHO "--restore-status		Restores back the status from $TEMPFILE_STATUS."
	$ECHO "--restore-status-message        Restores back the status message from $TEMPFILE_STATUS_MESSAGE."
	;;
esac

Ecco, invece, come si presenta Audacious dopo essere stato configurato per l’utilizzo dello script, in seguito all’attivazione del plugin Song Change:

Lo screenshot è stato ritagliato

Enjoy.

(Complete, I think, Ubuntu specific information on how to best get XMMS up and running at the end.)

=================================

The XMMS in GNU/Linux Manifesto v.0.1

===========================

The problem concerning the X Multimedia System (XMMS) is really a test for the wider community. It seems to affect users of Debian, Ubuntu and openSuse directly, but essentially it concerns all GNU/Linux users and the rest of the Free Software community, because it is a test of our social organisation: when and why can tribes be excluded and left to their own devices on the prairies of cyberspace?

This is written from the perspective of an Ubuntu user, but as you will see users from the Debian and openSuse communities also protest against the discontinuation of the XMMS. There might be other communities that have the same problem, but the Fedora leaders continue to give their users XMMS.

If the Debian, Ubuntu and openSuse leaders won’t put it back in, it is a great loss for their respective communities in terms of their social organisation. No one was asked and after consistent complaints since Feisty in the Ubuntu world nothing has happened.

To provoke, excluding XMMS users in this manner is not unlike, by analogy, the forceful evictions that slums and shanty towns are subjected to: just get out of the way for progress?!?!

That’s no way to talk to people! And there are many of us.

Of course we can hope for someone to create a third-party repository, like PPA (for Ubuntu). But why should it not be in the main repos?

One Ubuntu Forum thread about installing XMMS in Hardy has been viewed 3678 times and generated enough discussion to establish that XMMS is still the preferred player for many, no matter how inferior and unmaintained it allegedly is.

I posted about it three times (1,2,3) when installing Intrepid and there have been close to two thousand hits by now, including hundreds of downloads of a .zip file collected in a very unconventional and quick manner, but with all you need to get XMMS up and running in Intrepid (and maybe Hardy) and that shows that a central source is desired. By popular demand!

• The question is also asked here: “Whos stupid idea was it to remove XMMS from Hardy“, perhaps not in the most constructive of manners, but it shows the frustration and the post has been viewed 8,736 times with 57 replies.
  

• Here is another discussion in which it is clear, if contested, that there still is a definite popular demand for XMMS in Debian and a lack of proper reasons for excommunicating the application and its users:
  

• And Fedora 9 offers it:
  http://atrpms.net/dist/f9/xmms/

• Fedora 10 maintains XMMS with Pulse, ready to go:
  http://atrpms.net/dist/f10/xmms-pulse/

An openSuse user says at the release of 11:

“One thing that has me slightly worried is that it deleted xmms and all reference to it. I LOVE that program, and would sorely hate to see it deprecated from the SuSE repositories“

There might be a way for openSuse users with third-party repo, – so people are keeping it alive and protesting against its exclusion from the community. In other words, XMMS is alive. There are XMMS tribes in the distro landscape. Are we confined to compiler and dependencies?

People love this little player.

Ubuntu’s Popcon tells us that:
#rank name inst   vote  old   recent no-files (maintainer)
1971 xmms 87047 2035 84811 179    22       (Unknown)

Debian’s Popcon also shows that many people are using it.

¿So, what? – it has no database and it can’t handle UTF-8 characters? Maybe it has many bugs, some say, I don’t know, but for the last six years it has served me well and others since 1997. More than a decade.

And guess what, it can handle very big collections, 40k+ – in a single playlist where you can search quickly – without any problems – and it uses very little resources.

Amarok and Rhythmbox – to the best of my knowledge – still cannot import huge collections – around 20k they started to stall last time I checked, – and searching can get slow if the collection is large. They are great players, for sure, and I dream of the day that they can fully deliver what I want – all my tunes organised in an intelligently designed GUI on top of a state-of-the-art database. Can I have it with an XMMS skin? For now, however, can I just keep the old tested and tried version, please?

Although, apparently, Banshee can now handle 60k+ (it is now in 1.4, I tried 1.0 when the new database architecture was implemented and it could not), according to the friendly people at irc.gnome.org #banshee. So maybe it is a solution, but that maybe gets you into issues concerning freedom: http://boycottnovell.com/2008/09/13/microsoft-admitted-mono-trap – but for a perfect music player I might even compromise just a little bit on freedom. (Don’t tell Stallman!, but it can be that important, I also sin with Internet Exploder on Crossover Pro to access a router that only accepts changes from that that ghastly thing).

All that you need to get XMMS with codecs installed is still out there, googling and searching with Synaptic, because XMMS is a very popular player and it is here to stay. You just have to fiddle and for many users that is not what they want to do. (For Ubuntu users all necessary info is collected below).

Of course it is a great way to learn about computing. It is fun to do for some and great if you have time on your hands, maybe a second box to checkinstall the stuff that you need to compile to get your favourite player up and running. However, it really puts some people off and it is a hassle for others. For some it is maybe just something extra to do, but the issue here is really that no one i the end-user community was asked whether they thought it was appropriate to exclude XMMS from our communities.

This shifts power towards the developers and leaders and builds a little wall between developers and users, the blurry boundary that we are so proud of is vanishing, XMMS is just one little brick in a wall of seperation.

No matter what anyone says about Free Software and freedom, one thing is clear: freedom must be defended by a good dose of principles and dialogue. From Bruce Perens´ return to the Free Software terms in 1999 to the SCO case and other FUD and pathetic patent trolling we have seen again and again that we have to stand together as a community against patents, other privateering attacks and laizzes-faire attitudes towards freedom.

Where concerns have been raised about the exclusion of XMMS they have been met with support by many and with throwaway statements by some about the uselessness of the XMMS player – its many bugs and outdated libraries and its lack of maintenance – showing that people continue to use it and do whatever is necessary to install it on their updated systems, exactly because it is a olden golden little app, and never mind that others don’t like it for this or that reason.

If the popular demand does not bring XMMS back into Debian, Ubuntu and openSuse as an automated install option via the repos, with all codecs possibilities offered as well, then at least the XMMS users can maintain the old (dying?) spirit of Free Software and continue cooperating to be able to use that fine old interface to listen to tunes. Like outlaws. Then XMMS will really become a cult object and maybe that is for the better, maybe the movement needs a living martyr?

XMMS, despite whatever is claimed, is not entirely dead, KnutA is maintaining repos and the topic in the IRC @ irc.freenode.net #xmms reads:

* Topic for #xmms is: HAPPY 10TH ANNIVERSARY || http://www.xmms.org || 1.2.11 RELEASED 1211 days after 1.2.10 || Ubuntu/Debian packages: http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~knuta/xmms/
* Topic for #xmms set by Fatal at Thu Jun 5 10:55:15 2008

As an Ubuntu user I would be happy if there would be a PPA that provided the option:

sudo apt-get install xmms xmms-codecs-all (or xmms-wma xmms-mp4 xmms-shn etc.) xmms-pulseaudio xmms-whatever

¿Will a voluntary technoshaman help or will the great leaders of our communities have mercy on us – will they listen to the popular demand and stick it back into the repos, perhaps with warnings that it is outdated, unmaintained? At any rate, XMMS is historical, it is a cult object.

Happy listening!

Ubuntu specific information on how to best get XMMS up and running:

First go to KnutA’s site:
http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~knuta/xmms/

…where he kindly hosts an XMMS repository that allows you to add it to your apt-get system and it will pull the dependencies. Set up for Lenny, Hardy and Intrepid (which is just a copy of the Hardy repo, but it works). If you don’t know how to add a third-party software source (or repository) then look here.

That should be your first step. Install XMMS that way:

sudo apt-get install xmms (or search in Synaptic).

Then you have to add various encoding and decoding tools if you need them.

Pulseaudio, the new system: http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/xmms-pulse/

I do not use that. Choosing ALSA as output in XMMS works better for me. With Pulseaudio there were funny issues with other channels, losing sound for a half a second every now and then.

There is still an mp4 .deb here, which also works in Intrepid:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/i386/xmms-mp4/2.6-1

To get FLAC follow the second part of this how-to (you don’t need to compile XMMS as outlined in the first part of the how-to, since you can get the .deb with apt-get from KnutA):
http://blog.sartek.net/2008/04/install-xmms-on-ubuntu-804-hardy-heron.html

More relevant compile info here:
http://blog.xanda.org/?p=436

You might also want .wma (but much better is to convert your files), but if you need it, then you have to compile it (or google for an .rpm and use alien to convert it):
http://mcmcc.bat.ru/xmms-wma/

More relevant information here: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-21414.html

However, if you trust me you can also just download this file, Plugins.tar.gz and unzip to your:

/home/user/.xmms/Plugins folder (shut down XMMS, of course, for good measure):

That file contains the Flac and .wma plugins that should work in Intrepid and possibly Hardy, but why not go ahead and do it yourself, you might just learn something in the process?!

Maybe you also need Shorten (shn) for XMMS: http://www.etree.org/shnutils/xmms-shn/

- about which you can find useful information here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=833164&highlight=shn

Anything else that anyone’s uses or maintains?

If you have a virtual machine or an extra box to play around with it might be a good idea to compile your things somewhere else then your production system, but a similar environment, since it most likely will send you in dependency hell, chasing packages discerned from compiler output and with the aid of the higher spirits of telepathy. I just couldn’t be bothered to keep track of them. I know, I should have extracted it from the Apt logs and and and …

Anyway, in the end you have a system with a load of stuff that you don’t need and I ended up doing a fresh install, but I mostly do that when a new distro comes out, – first install it to check it out, stress it and try different things, before settling for a plan for the final, hopefully, install. NOTE: If you do it this way do remember to use checkinstall, which generates .debs that you can use the second time around. That is also how you should do it in a virtual or other machine, so that you can transfer it to your favourite stable machine where you just want to play music while you work on something else.