Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

[William Pitcock <nenolod@sacredspiral.co.uk>]

Joseph Neal <vlvtelvis <at> speakeasy.net> writes:

> 
> There are a number of plugins available from the rarewares repository[1] and 
> perhaps other third party repositories which provide the only convient way 
> I'm aware of to access a number of media formats (bonk, wavepack, lossless 
> audio, shorten, various DVD audio formats).  While I do not expect debian to 
> support these packages, I do ask that the wider ecosystem be taken into 
> consideration.
> 

Audacious supports wavpack out of the box. I have an unofficial port of
bonk and shorten on my computer which I can package on request; and
there was at one time a port of xmms-ac3dec to Audacious, but it doesn't
work with the new plugin API.

At any rate, the ecosystem for Audacious is pretty much the same as it is
for XMMS.

William