Hi, I really like the streamlined approach of VLC, though I find it
just a tad buggy. For example, I got really into my music collection
right around the time I switched and spent days with my albums on
random play, listening to all kinds'a stuff, some of which I didn't
even know I had. Some time in my journey of musical discovery, the
player got stuck on random, and now I have to turn random off any time
I want to listen to an audiobook.
I've also noticed it doesn't play things back quite properly.
Ocasionally you will get a squeek or a squawk out of the thing and
when you replay the file at the point where the squawk was it isn't
there any more. That leads me to believe it's vlc. It also has an
issue with playing flac files where it will just refuse to play
sertain files past a sertain point for no reason that I can figure
out, since windows players will play them just fine. Flac files have
their own internal checksomes as well, so if one is corupt it will
just refuse to play period, all of which leads me to believe it's vlc.
So I can't really say I love VLC to death, but it plays my media
without grabbing me by sensative portions of my anatomy and jerking me
around. On that basis, I'll continue to use it until it either
improves or something better comes along.
Best,
erik burggraaf
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On 9-Nov-08, at 2:09 PM, Arthur Pirika wrote:
Hi there, I've been on this list, once before, way back when tiger
first came out. However, now with leopard and all it's new features,
I'm reevaluating. My friend just got a mac, and I've been helping
her, based on what info I can pick up, especially from blind cool
tehc. Thanks, mike! <smile> Anyway, i have a few questions. First,
what do people reccomend as a good player? I know itunes works quite
well, but any other suggestions for good players? VLC media player,
perhaps? Also, here on my windows laptop, i have two sound cards,
and use the machine for internet streaming. What are good soundcards
to use with a mac, and what software is out there for streaming to
icecast servers in particular?
Lastly, what about a good IM program? Particularly one that can
connect to all of msn, aim, jabber, etc?
oh, lastly, does mac have an ftp client built in?
TIA,
Arthur.
