no-herd slyfox@gentoo.org Sergei Trofimovich Primary Maintainer It features a client-server model, allowing multiple (even simultaneous!) user interfaces, both textual and graphical. All common audio formats are supported using plugins. On top of this, there is a flexible media library to organize your music. List of features currently offered by XMMS2: Client-server model: * Allows XMMS2 to have various multiple interfaces (as clients). o Command line interfaces o GTK clients (matching GNOME & XFCE4 look and feel) o KDE clients (matching KDE look and feel) * Network transparency means you can run and control XMMS2 remotely, (e.g. run XMMS2 on your 'media box' and control it over network using a bluetooth-enabled PDA (TCP)) Wide format support: * Can play FLAC, mp3, MOD, SID, speex, ogg vorbis, wave files. * Clean separation of transport and decoder subsystems Allows for more flexible access to media. (e.g. play mp3 files from a Samba share without having to mount it on the local filesystem) Medialib: Database-driven media library stores metadata about songs as they're played, so songs can be quickly recalled and new playlists easily made. Support for airplay format Support for Monkey's Audio (APE) format with help of bundled libasf Transport for glibs virtual filesystem Icecast source output plugin Support for Monkey's Audio (APE) format with help of media-sound/mac Support for Microsoft Media Server (MMS) streams via libmms Support for Open Fingerprint Architecture (OFA) This client sends anonymous usage-statistics to the xmms2 Build xmms2 player daemon (otherwise only clients are built) Support for C64 SID Phase vocoder effect plugin Enable building of xmms2-mlib-updater client Enable support for various XML based playlists and sources: RSS, XSPF