The source files in this distribution are Copyright (C) 1999, Doug MacEachern, and are licensed for use under the same terms as Perl itself. You need xmms installed to use this package: http://www.xmms.org/ This package provides the following modules: Xmms::Remote - Perl interface to the xmms_remote API Xmms::Config - Perl interface to the xmms_cfg API Xmms - Exports the remote control shell routine Xmms::Plugin - Embeds a Perl interpreter inside xmms and provides Input/Output/Effect/General plugin interfaces for Perl (not yet released, may never be) For best results, install the bundle via: perl -MCPAN -e 'install Bundle::Xmms' Motivation: I am a programmer and I need good tunes for programming fuel. After my dsl installation last week, I finally discovered for myself, MP3z are the coolest thing since sliced bread. xmms is a wonderful tool, but I am not a fan of the GUI. Not that it isn't well done, it is very slick. But, my laptop mouse pad is flakey and I can never remember what buttons do what. The interactive shell provides command history, command/file completion and emacs key bindings. The shell also adds quite a bit functionality over what can be done with xmms from the command line. And a bit more than the gui, such as searching. See `perldoc Xmms' for feature details. Enjoy, -Doug dougm@pobox.com