{"id":113,"date":"2007-01-16T18:08:15","date_gmt":"2007-01-16T18:08:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-03-07T20:20:05","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T20:20:05","slug":"xmmwhat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/2007\/01\/16\/xmmwhat\/","title":{"rendered":"XMMWhat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, after about a year or so of using the various gtk2-based forks of XMMS, someone in #gentoo-dev recently recommended <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhythmbox.org\">rhythmbox<\/a>.  This is a sucky post because I can not even remember why I was asking for alternatives in there.  I <strong>think<\/strong> it was because I was lamenting that audacious doesn&#8217;t play <a href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/user\/trinityneo303\/\">my last.fm streams<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, whoever that person was is now my hero. I love that it&#8217;s a music management application as well. OK, I just went to my public last.fm page, as linked above, and um, wow.  I did not realise I&#8217;ve listened to that much Michael Jackson lately.  Actually, I did not realise that rhythmbox was interfacing with last.fm constantly to report that, either.   So, in the few minutes it&#8217;s taken to write this post, I like it even better.<\/p>\n<p>I realise that rhythmbox is something to get used to (it took me a bit), and that it&#8217;s not a straight up replacement for the xmms type applications (nor am I trying to sell it in this post as such).  I&#8217;m only expressing my own appreciation for it.  It also seems to be firmly a gnome application, so that limits the potential audience for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, after about a year or so of using the various gtk2-based forks of XMMS, someone in #gentoo-dev recently recommended rhythmbox. This is a sucky post because I can not even remember why I was asking for alternatives in there. I think it was because I was lamenting that audacious doesn&#8217;t play my last.fm streams. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/2007\/01\/16\/xmmwhat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">XMMWhat?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}