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XMMS currently supports the following audio and video file formats:

• Audio CD, including CDDB lookup.
• libmikmod supported formats
• MPEG Layer 1,2 and 3 (Also known as MP3), using the mpg123 library
• Ogg-Vorbis
• WAVWAV (or WAVE , short for WAVEform audio format, is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing audio on PCs. It is a variant of the RIFF bitstream format method for storing data in "chunks", and thus also close to the IFF and the AIFF forma
• speexThe Speex project is an attempt to create a free software speech codec, unencumbered by patent restrictions. Speex is licensed under the BSD License and is part of the Xiph. org Foundation Ogg container. The Speex coder uses the Ogg bitstream format, and high quality & ratio speech compression format via plugin.
• FLACFLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec . FLAC is an audio compression codec that is lossless. Unlike lossy codecs such as MP3 and Vorbis, it does not remove any information from the audio stream. On January 29th, 2003, Xiphophorus (now called the Xiph. support is provided by a plugin in the FLAC library

It supports IcecastIcecast is an open source streaming media project maintained by the creators of the Ogg media format, Xiph. org Foundation. It also refers specifically to the server program which is part of the project. Technical details The Icecast server is capable of and Shoutcast streaming, and is compatible with Winamp 2 skinsIn computing, skins and themes are custom graphical appearances ( GUIs) that can be applied to certain software and websites in order to suit the different tastes of different users. Such software is referred to as being skinnable and the process of writi.

1 Criticism

XMMS has continued to use an antiquated version of the GTK+Initially created for the graphics program the GIMP, the GIMP Toolkit — abbreviated as GTK — is one of the two most popular widget toolkits for the X Window System, intended for creating graphical user interfaces. GTK+ and Qt have supplanted Motif, previo toolkit years after a major revision was available. Many software developers also consider the XMMS codebase to be poorly designed and difficult to maintain. In 20032003 is a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar), and also: The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Summary Perhaps the defining global event of the year 2003 was the Invasion of Iraq launched by the U this led to two independent forks of XMMS, XMMS2 and the Beep Media Player , both of which are based on GTK+ 2.