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XMMS vs Parole

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When comparing XMMS vs Parole, the Slant community recommends XMMS for most people. In the question“What are the best media players for UNIX-like systems?” XMMS is ranked 19th while Parole is ranked 24th. The most important reason people chose XMMS is:

XMMS is able to use any Winamp skin available.

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What are the best media players for UNIX-like systems?

Pros

Pro
Support for Winamp themes

XMMS is able to use any Winamp skin available.

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.

Pro
Based on GStreamer

It's based on the GStreamer framework so it supports all GStreamer codes and plugins.

Cons

Con
Looks are dated and may be unappealing

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

Con
Tries to be a Audio and Video player at the same time

So it will never be the perfect audio or video player

Con
Menu navigation is poor

There are no icons inside the menus which makes them very uncomfortable and slow to browse.

Con
Fat

Depending on your desktop environment it could have some huge dependencies for example it needs GStreamer and its codecs plus GTK and some Xfce libaries.