Over the last few days, I have been working on merging audacious-1.5 and bmpx, to create an XMMS-lookalike GStreamer player.
It’s fairly “stable” now, some stuff is obviously not there yet (Tuplez for one, getting stuff like bitrate etc for another), but you can check out the Hg repository at https://hg.atheme.org/users/nenolod/mudkip-player.
What does this mean for Audacious and BMPx?
Absolutely nothing will change involving both projects. The goal here is to create a simple player which looks like XMMS to satisfy the demand created by XMMS removal in many distros. Both already existing projects have their own direction, this is just a shared goal to create a solution for the strain placed on our projects.
Hopefully distros will take this as a hint and run with it. Hopefully.