Re: MP3 Player for Linux

["markw-4" <user=5@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 

I thought the XMMS project was a spin-off of WinAMP, not a clone. 


> 
> 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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