When the output plugin is set to Disk Writer, it skips any output/effects plugins you might have set. There is a patch to fix this, but is is not in the gentoo ebuild. I have made a gentoo version of the patch that builds correctly with xmms-1.2.7-r20. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Created attachment 15087 [details, diff] gentoo patch for disk writer problem
Nice patch. I was hoping it was a diskwriter patch which allows simultaneous audio output while doing the diskwriting. xmms-1.2.7-r24 is being added to portage with this patch. Please test this build and let me know if you find any problems.
xmms-1.2.7-r24 seems to work just fine