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Plugin by Jeremy Brown (jeremy at brownjava.org)
Highly Experimental PSF Core by Neill Corlett (neill at neillcorlett.com)


What is Highly Experimental for XMMS and what can it do?

This is a port of Neill Corlett's Highly Experimental Winamp plugin for XMMS for i586-based Linux machines and PowerPC-based Linux machines.  It is a binary only release, and is distributed with no warranty or guarantee whatsoever.

Currently it can read and emulate psf, minipsf, psf2, and minipsf2 files and output them via XMMS.  It is able to read tag information from files as well.


System Requirements

He-xmms has relatively few system requirements.  You should run it on a Pentium or better (for the Intel port) or a PowerPC with similar spec.  It has been reported to run on Intel machines with clock speeds as low as 200 or 300 MHz.  There might be problems with CPU-intensive operations (such as cubic resampling) on slower machines, though.

You'll need a relatively recent version of XMMS (1.2.x), a copy of gtk-1.2.x and associated libraries (glib, gdk), and a relatively recent version of glibc (2.2 or higher).


Downloading

The latest release of Highly Experimental for XMMS is 0.6.1 and was released on 2/12/2005.  Download it here, gzipped in binary format:
 Click here for older versions.


Installing

To install he-xmms, you need to copy the libhe.so file to either your user-specific plugin directory ("~/.xmms/Plugins/") or the global plugin directory (most likely "/usr/lib/xmms/Input").  XMMS should now know how to handle .psf and .minipsf files.


Future

Future features of he-xmms include:
Questions/Comments

If you have questions or comments about Highly Experimental in general, please first consult Highly Experimental Frequently Asked Nonsense.  If you have questions about the XMMS port direction or status, send email to jeremy at brownjava.org.  Questions about the Windows port or the core in general should be directed towards Neill Corlett.

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