Jonathan Wilson wrote: >>>>> 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.
What version of Amarok are you using? The arrow keys move forward and backwards in a song for me... -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Linux Brain Dump - Linux Notes, HOWTOs and Tutorials: http://www.linuxbraindump.org Daemon Dancing in the Dark, an Open OS weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
