xmms only playing mp3 as root

[Johan Scheepers]

On 01/01/2011 03:23 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> On Friday 31 December 2010 17:45:14 Michael Schwendt wrote:
>> On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 18:41:35 +0200, Johan wrote:
>>> On 12/31/2010 05:20 PM, Rick Sewill wrote:
>>>> For me, when I am logged in, as a normal user, I do have a file,
>>>> ~/.xmms/config, and the line in my file is
>>>> output_plugin=/usr/lib64/xmms/Output/libxmms-pulse.so
>> Which is the Pulse Audio output plugin for XMMS, which is only available
>> if you install the "xmms-pulse" package. That one is not installed by
>> default when installing the "xmms" package.
> I can't help wondering why is this so? Pulseaudio is the default sound server
> on Fedora, and xmms should include the xmms-pulse by default, and prefer to
> use pa over alsa, also by default.
>
> As xmms is configured now, it uses alsa by default, which gets rerouted to pa
> (via the alsa-pulseaudio plugin in pa), which uses alsa as a backend for
> playback. From my perspective, this is plain stupid, xmms should just use pa
> natively, and eliminate the alsa-pa-plugin. It is an unnecessary overhead,
> IMO. And it also breaks the volume slider for xmms...
>
> So what am I missing here? Is it time to bug the xmms maintainers/packagers?
>
> Best, :-)
> Marko
>
Sorry Marko, this far beyond me. Johan