Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xmms alternative

2006-10-29 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 07:18:04PM +0200, Harm Geerts wrote You don't insult the program, you insult the people behind it. No such thing. I was stating that amarok is extreme overkill for simple streaming audio playing. It is aimed at a totally different target market. I'm not slagging

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xmms alternative

2006-10-29 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 29 October 2006 17:05, Walter Dnes wrote: I consider Super eye-candy interface and Funky visualisations as insults against a program. The amarok website is ***BRAGGING*** about them. I am obviously not their target market. both is OPTIONAL. without xmms/libvisual, there is no

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xmms alternative

2006-10-29 Thread Colleen Beamer
Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 07:18:04PM +0200, Harm Geerts wrote I consider Super eye-candy interface and Funky visualisations as insults against a program. The amarok website is ***BRAGGING*** about them. I am obviously not their target market. Obviously, I *am* amaroK's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xmms alternative

2006-10-29 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 29 October 2006 17:40, Colleen Beamer wrote: Anyway, with respect to the subject line, if my interpretation is correct and xmms is being removed from the package list, what can I use to play 'mod' files? audacious with the media-plugins/audacious-dumb plugin? or, emerge xine-lib

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xmms alternative

2006-10-29 Thread Colleen Beamer
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Sunday 29 October 2006 17:40, Colleen Beamer wrote: Anyway, with respect to the subject line, if my interpretation is correct and xmms is being removed from the package list, what can I use to play 'mod' files? or, emerge xine-lib with the modplug useflag

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xmms alternative

2006-10-28 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 28 October 2006 03:35, Walter Dnes wrote: Not only do I not want to emerge xine-lib, I don't want to emerge ruby and most of KDE, either. [m3000][root][~] emerge --ask amarok These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xmms alternative

2006-10-28 Thread Robert Cernansky
On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 21:35:03 -0400 Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 12:27:52PM +0200, Harm Geerts wrote On Friday 27 October 2006 06:00, Walter Dnes wrote: amarok == Even worse than xine. It's a Windows Media Player wannabee bloated frontend that ends up

[gentoo-user] Re: xmms alternative

2006-10-28 Thread Harm Geerts
On Saturday 28 October 2006 08:30, Sarah wrote: Dotan Cohen wrote: On 23/10/06, Arnau Bria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:08:08 -0400 Dave V wrote: Hello, Hi, I just read on the gentoo-dev list that xmms is about to be removed, but it's probably the only

[gentoo-user] Re: xmms alternative

2006-10-28 Thread Harm Geerts
On Saturday 28 October 2006 03:35, Walter Dnes wrote: On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 12:27:52PM +0200, Harm Geerts wrote On Friday 27 October 2006 06:00, Walter Dnes wrote: amarok == Even worse than xine. It's a Windows Media Player wannabee bloated frontend that ends up launching xine. In

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xmms alternative

2006-10-28 Thread b.n.
Harm Geerts ha scritto: Just because *you* wouldn't use it, doesn't mean it's crap... Just because *you* wouldn't use it, doesn't mean you have to badmouth it. You seem to forget people spend time creating these great programs at no cost. You don't insult the program, you insult the people

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xmms alternative

2006-10-28 Thread Chris Atkinson
On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 18:39:43 +0200 Harm Geerts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 28 October 2006 08:30, Sarah wrote: Dotan Cohen wrote: On 23/10/06, Arnau Bria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't help thinking the problem lies with my (lack of) understanding of samba - our Squeezebox

[gentoo-user] Re: xmms alternative

2006-10-27 Thread Harm Geerts
On Friday 27 October 2006 06:00, Walter Dnes wrote: f) it has no good alternative :-( it has. amarok, alsaplayer, xine [m3000][root][~] emerge --ask alsaplayer These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xmms alternative

2006-10-27 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Harm Geerts wrote: On Friday 27 October 2006 06:00, Walter Dnes wrote: f) it has no good alternative :-( it has. amarok, alsaplayer, xine [m3000][root][~] emerge --ask alsaplayer These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xmms alternative

2006-10-27 Thread david
[m3000][root][~] emerge --ask alsaplayer These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy alsaplayer. amd64 ~ # emerge --search alsaplayer Searching... [ Results for search key : alsaplayer ] [ Applications found : 1 ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xmms alternative

2006-10-27 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 12:27:52PM +0200, Harm Geerts wrote On Friday 27 October 2006 06:00, Walter Dnes wrote: amarok == Even worse than xine. It's a Windows Media Player wannabee bloated frontend that ends up launching xine. In addition to building xinelib, it also builds kde-base,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xmms alternative

2006-10-24 Thread Richard Fish
On 10/23/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ยท Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I recommend the use of the xine engine in amarok. There are no real plugins to speak of that you need, although I do have the following use flags: [ebuild R ] media-sound/amarok-1.4.3-r1 USE=kde