Re: MP3 Player for Linux

["Ben Holland" <user=122@nabble.blu.org>]

 I didn't think xmms was actually still being supported, I thought it all 
switched over to beep media player. If not then for a while I used xmms and 
loved it. Then I switched over to beep media player and loved it. I never 
did play movies on it though, always didn't seem to work which suited me 
fine. That was when I got vlc, so like... just my 2c. Basically I found 
winamp to be the be all end all media player, and xmms and bmp are great 
clones of it.  ~Ben 

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Kristian Erik Hermansen < 
[hidden email]> wrote: 

> 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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> > Registered GNU/Linux User #410639 
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