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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/ > > -- > > Samuel 'Shardz' Baldwin > > Shardz's Igloo: staticfree.info/~samuel/<http://staticfree.info/%7Esamuel/> > > Registered GNU/Linux User #410639 > > > > -- > > This message has been scanned for viruses and > > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > > believed to be clean. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Discuss mailing list > > [hidden email] > > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > > -- > Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com > > Kristian Erik Hermansen > -- > CISSP, CEPT, CREA, CEH, Linux+, A+, QGCS, ACSA, this is getting > ridiculous... > http://kristian-hermansen.com > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [hidden email] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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