anorexorcist wrote:
I get this error when trying to play music with XMMS 1.2.10:
Couldn't Open Audio
I'm glad somebody else in this list is interested in XMMS, which might draw more attention to the program (and its port)! I'm coming from Linux (yes, on my iMac) and XMMS still is one of my favourite music players, not just for nostalgia. To answer your question: are you sure that esd is running at all? I created an alias (in ~/.bashrc) for xmms: alias xmms='esd -nobeeps -port 16001 -tcp -terminate & xmms' This starts esd together with xmms. I don't have a config file for esd at all. Maybe one could leave away the "terminate" - check "man esd" and adjust to your needs. Unfortunately this solution seems rather CPU hungry, and my 1 GHz iMac cannot even play music without skipping (although playback works very well under Linux using the ALSA output plugin). A few days ago I wrote a message regarding XMMS to the list, asking whether somebody could make a port "xmms_osx_plugin". Ryan Schmidt gave me advice on how to improve the Portfile I had created on the basis of the XMMS port, but up until now noone could help with the more critical plugin problem. Here is my message: http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2007-December/007371.ht... Regards, Vlado P.S.: I actually wrote this reply on December 10, but did not check which address Mozilla Mail had chosen to reply to. Sorry for that.