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
