Since version 0.3, muff can act as a "frontend" not only to xmms, but also to a daemon program named muff-play. The latter has already some advantages over xmms and will be further improved in further releases of muff. muff-play is contained in the muff-tarball.
You can also control some of the more important xmms options from within muff (play, pause, forward, rewind,
volume, stop and some more).
Of cource you can also do this when you're using muff-play.
Download the latest release of muff from sourceforge.
System requirements
Muff needs a running X server, Eterm or xterm, xmms and xmms-shell, find, grep, bash and a pretty recent version of
dialog (I know that dialog.0.6 doesn't work, but dialog 0.9a does. There is
however susemuff for people with old versions of dialog).
When using muff-play, you will most certainly want to have some programs
like mpg321, ogg123, mplayer. But it's actually up to you what file types you
want to open with what programs.
More information
You can read the help online or you can download
the helpfile as text file,
postscript, pdf-version or you
can retrieve the LaTeX-Source of the help.
Note that the help file covers muff version 0.3, so some things mentioned
there don't make much sense for users of muff 0.2.
Please note also that only the text-version of the help file has been
updated to cover all features of muff-0.3-5. The other versions are stuck
somewhere around version 0.3-2.
Screenshots
There are also some screenshots. Page is about 200k or so.
The muff project is being maintained by
Richard Brauer
Muff is hosted on