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X Multimedia System (XMMS) is a free audio player which runs on Ubuntu. You’re reading a simple how-to on the installation of XMMS on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon. Two methods that work well are either through the “add/remove” dialog (which I feel takes longer) or by using terminal.

To install through the dialog:

Click on “Applications” on your menu panel and then “Add/Remove…”. This will bring up Ubuntu’s application browser which allows you to view available as well as your installed software. At the top of the window is the search feature, click inside the input box and type in “XMMS“. When it’s finished searching click on the check box to select XMMS for installation and then click “Apply Changes” at the bottom of the window. After the installation finishes click on the close button and XMMS is ready to go.

Skip ahead to installing presets

To install using Terminal:

Open a Terminal window by clicking on “Applications” again on your menu panel mouse over “Accessories” and then click on “Terminal.”

Note: I like to create a launcher on my menu panel for terminal. You can do this by right clicking on “Terminal”, selecting “Add this launcher to panel”, and Bob’s your uncle.

The first thing we need to go is to tell Ubuntu to install XMMS on your system. To do this type:

sudo apt-get install xmms

That’s it. XMMS will now be installed and ready to go.

Let’s get some EQ presets:

XMMS does not come with any default equalizer presets. If your want to add presets simular to what is in WinAmp then here’s how. First you’ll need to download the preset file and you can do this in Terminal.

Open up a Terminal window and go to your “tmp” folder like so:

cd /tmp

Then we use this command to download the preset file off the
XMMS site:

wget http://www.xmms.org/misc/winamp_presets.gz

Once it’s finished downloading you are ready to unpack it into the proper folder (which on my machine was /home/myusername/.xmms/) and overwrite the default preset file. The command for this is:

gunzip -c winamp_presets.gz > ~/.xmms/eq.preset

That’s it just those 3 lines.

Sorry to see you go:

You are now ready to listen to your music or favorite stream using XMMS! Yay! You did great.

^^

Tags: Gutsy Gibbon, install, Ubuntu, XMMS