Re: MP3 Player for Linux

["Kristian Erik Hermansen" <user=152@nabble.blu.org>]

 I wanted to mention that exaile is basically amarok with a gtk 
interface (so you can avoid kde libs) and adds more features.  Exaile 
is awesome.  For people who like total control over their music, I 
would recommend mpd/mpc... 



On 7/1/08, Samuel Baldwin <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> I used Amarok for ages (I even helped draw icons for them, versions 
> ago), but once I stopped using KDE, I realised it was silly just to 
> install something to play music that had about 50 dependencies. My 
> favourite feature was being able to hit Meta-C and pause my music, 
> then start it again. (Alas, this stopped when I got my Model M, no 
> Meta key.) I tried Audacious for a while, which is just an XMMS clone 
> with some arguably `better' features. Then I used `moc' [1] for a 
> while. Nice ncurses UI, played everything I wanted to locally. The 
> problem arose when I tried to stream flac files, though. Just didn't 
> work. For a while I used mpg123, ogg123, and flac123 to play music, 
> but those didn't support streaming at all. (Or at least flac123 
> didn't.) I wrote a very messy perl script to handle it all, too, but 
> that's long since trashed. 
> 
> A long while back I tried mpd, but it was very buggy for me. Recently 
> I tried it again, and it works absolutely fantastically. I'm using it 
> now. There's some minor setup (editing a configuration file), but 
> anyone should be able to handle that. I keep all my music on one of my 
> servers and stream it with gnump3d [2]. (It's handled every format 
> I've thrown at it, with the proper libraries installed.) Since gnump3d 
> is perl, it runs just fine on various BSD and Linux distros with very 
> minor setup. Just point it at your collection (again, minor editing of 
> a configuration file, from a sample), run it, and you have a very nice 
> web interface to access your music on a port of your choosing. It 
> gives you m3u files when you try to play something, which I keep a 
> collection of in /home/samuel/audio/playlists. Generally it's as 
> simple as loading the playlist with ncmpc. If I kept everything 
> locally, it'd be even easier (ncmpc has a very nice ncurses UI for 
> selecting music and adding it to the playlist.) 
> 
> The very best part about this setup, however, is that because mpd is a 
> daemon, I can control it from various methods. I generally don't have 
> a player window open at all. If I want to check the song playing, I 
> can just punch `mpc' into a console and it spits out the info. To play 
> and pause, I bound Control-Alt-T to pause and Control-Alt-N to play 
> (on dvorak, so J and K on Qwerty) in Xmonad with the lines: 
> 
>     , ((modMask .|. controlMask,  xK_t     ), spawn "mpc pause") 
>     , ((modMask .|. controlMask,  xK_n     ), spawn "mpc play") 
> 
> in my xmonad.hs. (As well as other things such as setting the volume 
> and skipping tracks). It's really the nicest setup I've ever had with 
> my music. Never came across a format that it can't play. (Mainly mp3, 
> ogg, flac, mpc, and wav.) 
> 
> Sorry for the sales pitch, I'm rather passionate about my music software. 
> 
> [1] http://moc.daper.net/
> [2] http://www.gnu.org/software/gnump3d/
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