audio player

[Michael Havens]

yep, xxms works (though IU can't do anything else. How do I set this as the 
primary player?

On Tuesday 23 January 2007 3:00 pm, Edward Norton wrote:
> On 1/23/07, Michael Havens <bmike101 at cox.net> wrote:
> > I started wanted to listen to some online music and so I clicked the file
> > and
> > an audio player (kaffine) appeared. I sat there and watched it about 5
> > minutes and thought that perhaps my speakers were unplugged so I hopped
> > on my
> > knees to look at it when suddenly I started hearing the music.... 1
> > second worth of it every 5 seconds.
> >
> > Now I listened to these same files before through another program. I
> > think this means that kaffine uses to much memory for this old box. What
> > program do
> > I run to change the audio player and which do you suggest I use? (I use
> > icewm
> > so I can't go about it through the menu bar)
> >
> > (if you don't know if someone has the time start top in an emulator then
> > select the the menu item that changes this setting and see what program
> > starts)
>
> Since you're on an old box, I'd suggest XMMS, which is modeled after
> winamp. Tuna suggested amaroK, which is a very good player, and the one
> that I use also, but I believe it has higher memory requirements than even
> Kaffeine does, so probably wouldn't be what you're looking for.