Subj : Music Sites For Linux
To   : CHRISTOPHER PERRAULT
From : ROB MCCART
Date : Fri Aug 19 2005 03:43 am

Since this started out as questions about Music in Linux...

A friend of mine was playing with Fedora Core 4 and then tried
Suse 9.3 but both included little or no support for MP3 playing
(using XMMS) and he finally installed (or tried?) RealPlayer in
Suse 9.3, which he says is really nice otherwise but, again,
playing MP3's in RealPlayer, he says it 'hickups'. Plays about
30 seconds, stops for a split second and goes on. Just enough
to be annoying. Do these programs usually work well or are
there other players that are much better? Sorry I don't have
the exact specs on his system right in front of me but it's high
end enough to run Win XP pretty well I know..
Might be a P3 550 with something over 256 meg ram and probably
onboard sound. Something like a 16 meg NVidia graphics board
I believe if it's the system I'm thinking of. He's not a 'gamer'..

He also seems to be finding really poor support for USB2 devices
which often work but are Much slower than the same hardware
in Windows XP, especially USB (Thumb?, Key?) drives. It will
work poorly with a 17 meg one he has but neither of those distros,
or Knoppix, will even think about a 2 gig one he recently bought.

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