I could not play MP3s on my Linux system. That was the first challenge I have to deal in my very first experience with Linux. At the time, almost every major Linux distributions did not support proprietary multimedia formats by default. You have to install the additional codecs to be able to play your multimedia collection.
But then I met this beautiful app called XMMS. It was a great music player, originally created to resemble the same functionality and interface to the popular Windows' Winamp.
Later, XMMS forked into more modern apps. The first fork was Beep Media Player that built on GTK2 technology. Not long, BMP was discontinued and the existing code then forked again to the currently surviving Audacious Music Player.
Of course, there are a lot media players on Linux you can rely on. Even, major Linux distros now support proprietary multimedia formats by default. But somehow you want to have fun with your nostalgic old apps you used to play music in your high school.
Recently, I have successfully build an AppImage for the loving XMMS Media Player. I built the AppImage using Ubuntu 6.06 old-release repository, that has been tested and runs well on my Ubuntu 22.04.
If you are interested too, to play your music on XMMS, you could download the AppImage from this following URL: XMMS_Music_Player-1.2.10+cvs20050809.glibc2.14-x86_64.AppImage
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