X Multimedia System (XMMS) was an audio player for Unix-like systems released under a free software license. ==History== XMMS was originally written as X11Amp by Peter and Mikael Alm in November 1997.
Though the original release was made under a license that did not provide any access to the program's source code, it is now released under the GPL-2.0-or-later. On June 10, 1999, 4Front Technologies decided to sponsor X11Amp development and the project was renamed to XMMS - the name being an acronym for X MultiMedia System.
Most XMMS users take this to mean "X11 MultiMedia System" or "X Window System MultiMedia System"; the official interpretation of the "X" is "Cross-platform". In 2002, Peter Alm initiated the XMMS2 project, aiming to produce a successor to XMMS using all new code and devoted solely to audio playback. ===Forks=== XMMS has continued to use GTK+ 1.x toolkit, despite a major revision of GTK (2.x) being available for several years, and the current version being GTK3.
These factors led to various forks and related projects: The Beep Media Player, a fork of XMMS code that uses GTK+ 2, started around 2003 * Youki, the remade continuation of Beep Media Player, started around the end of 2005 * Audacious, a fork from Beep Media Player started around 2005 when Beep Media Player development ceased in favor of Youki A GTK+2 based fork by Mohammed Sameer, named XMMS2.
These factors led to various forks and related projects: The Beep Media Player, a fork of XMMS code that uses GTK+ 2, started around 2003 * Youki, the remade continuation of Beep Media Player, started around the end of 2005 * Audacious, a fork from Beep Media Player started around 2005 when Beep Media Player development ceased in favor of Youki A GTK+2 based fork by Mohammed Sameer, named XMMS2.
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