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Is there any way I can make an old XMMS plugin work in any modern player? (infosec.pub)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Long story short, I learned there is an XMMS release of a plugin I use in Winamp for music playback (mp3PRO). Sadly, I recoded most of my music to mp3PRO back in the day, and now I'm stuck using Winamp, even on Linux. I like the player, wouldn't change it, but I wanted to switch to something native, like Audacious or Qmms. But, this codec is abandonware and it only has a plugin released for XMMS back in 2005 (closed source, of course).

Is there any way I can make this plugin work in any modern player? It's 32-bit only, but that's not a problem, I can just use the 32-bit versions of Audacious or Qmms (Void still has 32-bit builds of them in repo)... maybe like a wrapper or something... I would debug and do whatever it needs, I just need some pointers where to start looking and what to do exactly if I'm gonna have a shot at making this work.

I tried loading the plugin in Audacious, it throws and error while loading, something xmms_config related (can't remember, I'm currently not at the PC I was testing this on), Qmms just says that it can't load the plugin. I presume GTK+ would be required and I'd bundle whatever libraries it needs with the plugin, just don't know where to start really... ldd would be a good start I guess, but I didn't run that 😂.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

At some point you'll have to use a new codec, even if it's in 10 years. So it might be a good idea to download the music instead of converting.

Soulseek with Nicotine+ seems to be a good way to download music. Or streamrip/deemix with a (temporary) Deezer/Tidal subscription supports high quality audio.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I was afraid that this might be the only viable solution... I would do it, but it will take A LOT of time.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

More time than trying to shoehorn a defunct package for an abandoned codec in to a random player which even if it works would only be a temporary kludge not a fix?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Well, the challenge is interesting though... but yes, you are correct.