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When comparing XMMS vs Nuclear Music Player, the Slant community recommends Nuclear Music Player for most people. In the question“What are the best audio players for UNIX-like systems?” Nuclear Music Player is ranked 27th while XMMS is ranked 38th.
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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 Streaming and playing local files within a single client
Pro Cross-platform
As an Electron app NMP runs on GNU/Linux, macOS and Windows.
Pro Free and open source
Licensed under AGPL-3.0. Everybody can inspect the code, use it and improve it.
Pro Looks beautiful and modern
Pro Plugin system allowing for easy addition of more streaming sources
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 Resource intensive
Just like any other web app.