The source files in this distribution are Copyright (C) 1999-2000, 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) Jean-Baptiste Nivoit has written an emacs mode to interact with Xmms::shell, which you can find here: http://www.multimania.com/jbn/software/xmms-mode.el For best results, install the bundle via: perl -MCPAN -e 'install Bundle::Xmms' Enjoy, -Doug dougm@pobox.com