On Tue 02 Feb 2010 at 16:04:51 PST Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 15:18:41 -0800, Charlie Kester <[email protected]> wrote:
On Tue 02 Feb 2010 at 14:34:42 PST Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
I've been trying Rhythmbox too lately. It also recognizes IDv3 tags,
has playlist support, podcast download and archive support, last.fm
integration and online streaming radio support. Some bits of the UI
are, to put it mildly, "dumped down". This is a common problem of many
Gnome applications these days, it seems. I've only used it for about a
week or two now, so I can't really say if I _like_ it yet.
I've been trying Exaile and Rhythmbox too. I think I prefer Rhythmbox,
because it handles my .m3u playlists in the way I like. It immediately
lists them in the sidebar under Playlists, and they persist there from
session to session.
Yes, that's a really _nice_ feature of Rhythmbox :-)
When I am trying to 'enter the zone' and code for 3-4 hours without jumps
from one context to another, I often load a large m3u playlist to Rhythmbox
and let it repeat itself forever. Then I start writing and lose myself in
the process of creating things instead of going back and forth between my
terminal and the player in an effort to "keep the playlist filled with nice
music".
The context switch from the work I am going to the player is always hurtful
for my concentration, so persistent playlists help me avoid it as much
as possible.
OTOH, if I want continuous random playback of a playlist without the
overhead of a graphical music manager, I go with
mpg123 -C -Z -@ playlist.m3u
in a terminal window. To make it easier to launch this by clicking the
m3u file in a file manager like Thunar, I have a desktop settings file
for it. ~/.local/share/applications/mpg123-random-usercreated.desktop:
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Terminal=true
Name=mpg123-random
Exec=mpg123 -C -Z -@ %F
MimeType=audio/mpeg
Then either I associate this with the .m3u file type in the usual way,
or I leave .m3u associated with something else and use "Open with other
Application" to select mpg123-random.
When I'm deeply immersed in my work, I don't need to see the album cover
and other info the graphical music managers show me about the currently
playing song. mpg123 gives more than enough such info, but I almost
never look at it. (The only reason I run it in a terminal window is to
make it easy to shutdown and to be able to skip past a song I've decided
I no longer like -- hence the use of the -C option.)
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