> >>> What is the alternative to xmms? As my disk collapsed I was intending > >>> installing 10.3 asap; just wondering what else will be lost. > > > > Boy, there sure are a lot of media players for Linux. I use Amarok and > > Banshee. Has anyone ever done a big comparison of the various ones? > > Probably not recently - I also like kaffeine (kde front end to xine)
I'm a musician and have used xmms for years for practice (I play along with various recordings). Crazy as it sounds, I actually use Amarox for media management (I like it, it's a cross between iTunes (a little too rigid) and xmms playlists (a little too loose). I then drag and drop the files I want to practice with into xmms. The one and only reason for that, is, that with xmms I can use the keyboard to "seek" forward and backwards while the song is playing. So if I have to practice a small difficult section of a song I can just tap the left-arrow key and hear it again. I can't do that in Amarok, even in the little player window, which is disappointing. However, this thread got me to looking for a replacement, and I've found "KPlayer" which fills that need for me. So I guess I just moved from xmms to KPlayer :-) -- ---------------------- System Administrator - Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com http://jwadmin.blogspot.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
