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XMMS
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28 Recommendations
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XMMS Review

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Review of XMMS powered by the Slant community.

XMMS is a multimedia player for unix systems in the style of Winamp.

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Pros

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Pro
Support for Winamp themes

XMMS is able to use any Winamp skin available.

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Pro
Simple and familiar music player

Many users should be pretty familiar with the interface as it has been built to match that of the popular Winamp player.

Cons

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Con
Looks are dated and may be unappealing

XMMS is pretty long in the tooth now and it's design definitely reflects that.

Commonly Compared

XMMS
vs
Music Player Daemon
28 Recommendations
cmus
50 Recommendations
DeaDBeeF
70 Recommendations
qmmp
16 Recommendations
MPlayer
20 Recommendations
Audacious
69 Recommendations
Lollypop
41 Recommendations
Amarok
30 Recommendations
Clementine
237 Recommendations
MOC - Music On Console
11 Recommendations
yarock
7 Recommendations
Mopidy
6 Recommendations
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