Re: [gentoo-user] alternatives to audacious?
More precisely, I meant : http://www.sacredchao.net/quodlibet http://www.exaile.org/ Also, Wikipedia is astonishingly knowledgeable about audio players, these days : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_media_players#Audio_players.07UNIQ4f732286383f389d-nowiki-0199-QINU1.07UNIQ4f732286383f389d-nowiki-019A-QINU Hope this helps. On 6/6/07, Jean-Baptiste Mestelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure if you will like these, but did you try : - quodlibet, - exaile ? Cheers ! On 6/4/07, Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are some alternatives to Audacious mp3/CD player? I really liked the old XMMS and used it right up until it was taken off portage. Audacious seems to resemble XMMS closely enough, but it seems more fragile. I have it working well on one gentoo box, but on this box, I am just having no luck getting it to run without errors (won't read audio CD, master volume control is not functional, playlist errors on start-up... ) I'm looking for something with a GUI rather than a command-line player. Thanks. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
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On Dienstag, 5. Juni 2007, Denis wrote: Amarok is feature-rich, but heavy indeed. I don't recommend it for a drop-in XMMS replacement. If you like the idea of editing mp3 tags and organzing your music really nicely, browsing it 3 different ways and seeing cover art from amazon.com and such, amarok is for you. Ha... yea, my use flags have -gnome and -kde in them, and I run a very simple fluxbox environment... I just want the music player to have a decent graphical interface, but just the essential features, without bloat. It seems like I got the Audacious to work... But I still miss the XMMS ;-) alsaplayer? it is small, fast, you can run douzends of instances at the same time. Play forwards, backwards, at a lot of different speeds - and it has even a playlist. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
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try media-sound/moc - Music On Console - ncurses interface for playing audio files -- Vladimir Rusinov GreenMice Solutions: IT-решения на базе Linux http://greenmice.info/
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On 6/5/07, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: alsaplayer? it is small, fast, you can run douzends of instances at the same time. Play forwards, backwards, at a lot of different speeds - and it has even a playlist. I did want to try the alsaplayer, but when I try to emerge it, portage says it's masked: [code] !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy alsaplayer have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - media-sound/alsaplayer-0.99.77-r1 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) [/code] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
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On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 00:05:41 +0300 Stratos Psomadakis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: O/H Denis έγραψε: What are some alternatives to Audacious mp3/CD player? I really liked the old XMMS and used it right up until it was taken off portage. Audacious seems to resemble XMMS closely enough, but it seems more fragile. I have it working well on one gentoo box, but on this box, I am just having no luck getting it to run without errors (won't read audio CD, master volume control is not functional, playlist errors on start-up... ) I'm looking for something with a GUI rather than a command-line player. Thanks. i can think only of amarok,but it's very 'heavy'... maybe you could find a nice gui client for mpd... How about using gmpc as a GTK+ frontend to mpd? http://www.musicpd.org/gmpc.shtml Never tried myself, though. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
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O/H Denis έγραψε: On 6/5/07, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: alsaplayer? it is small, fast, you can run douzends of instances at the same time. Play forwards, backwards, at a lot of different speeds - and it has even a playlist. I did want to try the alsaplayer, but when I try to emerge it, portage says it's masked: [code] !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy alsaplayer have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - media-sound/alsaplayer-0.99.77-r1 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) [/code] open up a terminal,become root and write: #echo media-sound/alsaplayer ~x86/etc/portage/package.keywords -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
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I just downloaded myself and compiled it I couldn't find a replacement On 6/4/07, Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are some alternatives to Audacious mp3/CD player? I really liked the old XMMS and used it right up until it was taken off portage. Audacious seems to resemble XMMS closely enough, but it seems more fragile. I have it working well on one gentoo box, but on this box, I am just having no luck getting it to run without errors (won't read audio CD, master volume control is not functional, playlist errors on start-up... ) I'm looking for something with a GUI rather than a command-line player. Thanks. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
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On 04/06/07, Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are some alternatives to Audacious mp3/CD player? I really liked the old XMMS and used it right up until it was taken off portage. Audacious seems to resemble XMMS closely enough, but it seems more fragile. I have it working well on one gentoo box, but on this box, I am just having no luck getting it to run without errors (won't read audio CD, master volume control is not functional, playlist errors on start-up... ) I'm looking for something with a GUI rather than a command-line player. I had a similar issue, though the reason I had for not liking audacious had more to do with it's atrocious memory usage. I eventually settled on MPD (music player daemon) coupled with Sonata. MPD requires a small amount of setup, but it's really nice and light. Sonata is a simple GTK client which seems pretty quick and light, but AFAIK doesn't do a couple of things which I don't really need (like EQ controls). Plus you can control MPD from a command line or script in a pinch using netcat, without even having the UI open. =) Henk Boom -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
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Not sure if you will like these, but did you try : - quodlibet, - exaile ? Cheers ! On 6/4/07, Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are some alternatives to Audacious mp3/CD player? I really liked the old XMMS and used it right up until it was taken off portage. Audacious seems to resemble XMMS closely enough, but it seems more fragile. I have it working well on one gentoo box, but on this box, I am just having no luck getting it to run without errors (won't read audio CD, master volume control is not functional, playlist errors on start-up... ) I'm looking for something with a GUI rather than a command-line player. Thanks. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
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O/H Denis έγραψε: What are some alternatives to Audacious mp3/CD player? I really liked the old XMMS and used it right up until it was taken off portage. Audacious seems to resemble XMMS closely enough, but it seems more fragile. I have it working well on one gentoo box, but on this box, I am just having no luck getting it to run without errors (won't read audio CD, master volume control is not functional, playlist errors on start-up... ) I'm looking for something with a GUI rather than a command-line player. Thanks. i can think only of amarok,but it's very 'heavy'... maybe you could find a nice gui client for mpd... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Denis wrote: What are some alternatives to Audacious mp3/CD player? I really liked the old XMMS and used it right up until it was taken off portage. Audacious seems to resemble XMMS closely enough, but it seems more fragile. I have it working well on one gentoo box, but on this box, I am just having no luck getting it to run without errors (won't read audio CD, master volume control is not functional, playlist errors on start-up... ) I'm looking for something with a GUI rather than a command-line player. Thanks. I gotta give a recommendation for Amarok. It is a kde package so it might not be what you had in mind, but it is a great music player. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGZH2D0PM4px2/kjgRApkBAJ4nQYt5XRfuvQUynFq/KKXazEyz7ACff/PC ZKgIadtb4RG0kmODTpLLzvk= =e1py -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
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I'll have a look at Amarok. Was XMMS removed for licensing issues? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
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+++ Denis [gentoo-user] [Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 05:26:09PM -0400]: I'll have a look at Amarok. Was XMMS removed for licensing issues? XMMS was removed due to it being no longer maintained I believe. I was also a huge XMMS fan and switched to Audacious. But it's so slow and buggy that I've converted to Amarok. Amarok is *not* an XMMS replacement though and fanbois suggesting it to ex-xmms users should note that (it's like suggesting a hummer to somebody looking for a compact). -- // Andrew MacKenzie | http://www.edespot.com // GPG public key: http://www.edespot.com/~amackenz/public.key // Jesus saves! And takes half damage. pgpIbHdZDDpy5.pgp Description: PGP signature
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quoth the Denis: I'll have a look at Amarok. Was XMMS removed for licensing issues? No. It's because the code is old and unmaintained. If I had the skill I would pick it up myself, but sadly I don't know what the heck I'm doing with it...I am very surprised that someone has not done this as there seems to be a lot of take xmms out of my cold dead hands sort of folks out there. I am in the same boat as you, I tried audacious as a replacement but it just wasn't working for me. I have many playlists with 1000+ songs on them, and audacious seems to choke on them. When it doesn't outright crash the interface freezes when I scroll the playlist and it reads the id3 tags. Makes it all but unusable for me. Amarok isn't my cup of tea either. I wrote my own scripts to organize my music, and create playlists, and amarok seems to want to organize my tunes for me. Ugh. To be fair I have not delved too deeply into all the options. Perhaps there is a way to turn it into an xmms/audacious clone. Perhaps xmms2 (which moves to a client/server approach) may have a similar lightweight client to the old xmms. Running a server to simply play tunes does seem like overkill to me though... I'll likely get shouted down for this, but when they removed xmms from the tree I simply deleted xmms and related packages from my world file without actually uninstalling them. You can get away with this with emerge, but not paludis. So: I still use xmms, but it will be a version frozen in time for all eternity. Sigh. -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org ...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected... - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
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On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 17:00:51 -0400 Ken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Denis wrote: What are some alternatives to Audacious mp3/CD player? I really liked the old XMMS and used it right up until it was taken off portage. Audacious seems to resemble XMMS closely enough, but it seems more fragile. I have it working well on one gentoo box, but on this box, I am just having no luck getting it to run without errors (won't read audio CD, master volume control is not functional, playlist errors on start-up... ) I'm looking for something with a GUI rather than a command-line player. Thanks. I gotta give a recommendation for Amarok. It is a kde package so it might not be what you had in mind, but it is a great music player. Amarok is feature-rich, but heavy indeed. I don't recommend it for a drop-in XMMS replacement. If you like the idea of editing mp3 tags and organzing your music really nicely, browsing it 3 different ways and seeing cover art from amazon.com and such, amarok is for you. But if you like xmms, maybe before you try to find more alternatives you'll consider trying to compile and install it from downloaded sources, manually. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Farrell wrote: On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 17:00:51 -0400 Ken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Denis wrote: What are some alternatives to Audacious mp3/CD player? I really liked the old XMMS and used it right up until it was taken off portage. Audacious seems to resemble XMMS closely enough, but it seems more fragile. I have it working well on one gentoo box, but on this box, I am just having no luck getting it to run without errors (won't read audio CD, master volume control is not functional, playlist errors on start-up... ) I'm looking for something with a GUI rather than a command-line player. Thanks. I gotta give a recommendation for Amarok. It is a kde package so it might not be what you had in mind, but it is a great music player. Amarok is feature-rich, but heavy indeed. I don't recommend it for a drop-in XMMS replacement. If you like the idea of editing mp3 tags and organzing your music really nicely, browsing it 3 different ways and seeing cover art from amazon.com and such, amarok is for you. But if you like xmms, maybe before you try to find more alternatives you'll consider trying to compile and install it from downloaded sources, manually. What about XMMS2? It's not in portage but I thought it was designed to fix all the flaws of the original XMMS. I have not tried it so I can't say for sure if its even remotely the same as the old XMMS. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGZJl50PM4px2/kjgRAi7gAJ4jHqtY3AC3jV0kcOf6eY7f9UL2CgCdHXjU EtKc0bAlLsK914QckPqcsXs= =hMaq -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
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Amarok is feature-rich, but heavy indeed. I don't recommend it for a drop-in XMMS replacement. If you like the idea of editing mp3 tags and organzing your music really nicely, browsing it 3 different ways and seeing cover art from amazon.com and such, amarok is for you. Ha... yea, my use flags have -gnome and -kde in them, and I run a very simple fluxbox environment... I just want the music player to have a decent graphical interface, but just the essential features, without bloat. It seems like I got the Audacious to work... But I still miss the XMMS ;-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
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On Monday 04 June 2007 23:40:44 darren kirby wrote: Was XMMS removed for licensing issues? No. It's because the code is old and unmaintained. If I had the skill I would pick it up myself, but sadly I don't know what the heck I'm doing with it... I'd rather say it's unmaintainable. People have tried and failed. It was kept in the tree for years literally after it became unmaintainable because people were trying. And the bugs have piled up during that period.. I am very surprised that someone has not done this as there seems to be a lot of take xmms out of my cold dead hands sort of folks out there. What surprises me is that no-one has put it in a dedicated overlay and announced it for use with layman (the zugaina overlay does have it but I think it contains so much other crap too that I cannot recommend using that). -- Bo Andresen signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] alternatives to audacious?
On 6/5/07, Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are some alternatives to Audacious mp3/CD player? I really liked the old XMMS and used it right up until it was taken off portage. Audacious seems to resemble XMMS closely enough, but it seems more fragile. I have it working well on one gentoo box, but on this box, I am just having no luck getting it to run without errors (won't read audio CD, master volume control is not functional, playlist errors on start-up... ) I'm looking for something with a GUI rather than a command-line player. Thanks. * media-sound/bmpx Available versions: ~0.36.1 Homepage:http://www.beep-media-player.org Description: Next generation Beep Media Player Although I prefer mplayer console on most of my multimedia needs, I've been using bmp on my old Debian box and it works okay with a nice xmms-like feel to it. I use mplayer on the console on Gentoo. I think bmpx [http://bmpx.beep-media-player.org/site/BMPx_Homepage] looks different from its predecessor though. Haven't tried it yet. -- Jed R. Mallen | GPG key ID: 81E575A3 fp: 4E1E CBA5 7E6A 2F8B 8756 660A E54C 39D6 81E5 75A3 | http://jed.sitesled.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
