XMMS

XMMS is a simple media player for X based systems. It stands for X Multimedia System. It is a pretty lightweight GTK+ player.

XMMS is pretty easy to get ging on the XO. Here is how:

Installation

Switch over to a VT console (CTRL + ALT + Mesh)

Then type

yum install -y xmms

If you also want mp3 support, import the Livna repository package (as described on MPlayer) and type

yum install -y xmms-mp3

Launching

If you try to launch XMMS from the VT console it will freak-out about not being able to launch a GUI. Don't worry about it.

Jump back over to Sugar (CTRL + ALT + Home). Then launch the terminal activity. Now in the terminal activity you can launch:

[olpc@xo-03-19-79 ~]$ xmms

Using XMMS

XMMS is going to look TINY on the XO's 200dpi screen. So the first thing to do is switch to Double size (CTRL + D). Play with whatever settings with the Preferences (CTRL + P) and EQ (ALT + G) that you like.

Loding files

The playlist (ALT + E) is still pretty small, so you're gonna just have trust me for what the menu say. If you click the button that says + FILE (leftmost) you can load one or more files into the playlist.

At this point I suggest you load up some ogg files onto a thumb drive. They are easy to get to, and plenty fast.

Note that I said ogg. I suggest some audiobooks from [archive.org] for your listening pleasure. I happen to like Tryad's album Public Domain. But just get something ogg.

Drag the player window out of the way so you can navigate the file system. ../ means go up a level in the folders. Click on that a few times until you can't go any further. It should say something like:

./
../
activities/
bin/
boot/
... and so on ...

Go into the media/ folder.

Now the media folder should have as many entries as usb drives or sd cards you have plugged in. Probably only the one usb drive that you have plugged in, Go in to that folder and find the list of songs you want to listen to. You can select multiple files by pressing CTRL or use the Add all files in directory button.

Then just click play to start listening!

Using XMMS while doing other things

Ok so now you have XMMS floating on your screen and playing music. So now how do you do something else too? Easy!

XMMS has a windowshade mode that makes it pretty darn small. (CTRL + W)

This window fits in the blank space of many activities top bar nicely. To make it even smaller you can take off the Double size mode from before. (CTRL + D)

Final notes

Once you have XMMS running small all you have to do to bring it back up would be to:

1. Click on it to focus on it
2. Double size it (CTRL + D)
3. Open up the full window, un-window shade (CTRL + W)
4. Open the playlist if you need to (ALT + E)

A few extras

A few other shortcuts that are handy are:

R Repeat S Shuffle Shift+CTRL+W to windowshade the playlist ALT+G to open the EQ

Z Previous X Play C Pause V Stop B Next

CTRL+P Preferences [[Category:Media Player