On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 10:23 -0800, maxim wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > mplayer has some problems that xmms doesn't. > > Whenever a lot of hard-drive activity takes place on > my PC, mplayer faulters and sputters. I have to run > xmms if I want uninterrupted music. And this is a > fairly up-to-date unit with a Gig o' RAM. > > If I want shuffle mode I must first open xmms, shuffle > the playlist and save it before using it in mplayer > cause shuffle mode in mplayer only plays a few tunes > over and over. > > With xmms it's easy to cue up as many tunes as I like. > Haven't been able to do that in (g)mplayer. > > xmms has a neat feature that lets you arrange the > playlist in the order the dir was filled allowing you > to hear your tunes in the order they were acquired. > Cause, naturally, I prefer to hear the newer tunes > more that the older ones. How do I do that with > mplayer? > > mplayer *can* play wmas, so that's a plus. > > Maxim
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