Subj : Music Sites For Linux
To   : ROB MCCART
From : richardw
Date : Mon Aug 22 2005 10:15 am

  Re: Music Sites For Linux
  By: ROB MCCART to CHRISTOPHER PERRAULT on 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

The mp3 support for xmms can be download using YOU (Yast Online Update.)

 > 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

I use xmms in SuSE, and it works great.

 > 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

Should work just fine.

 > 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.

I havn't used one of these with SuSE.

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