I mean, if you wanted to set up an mpd server, you could use ncmpcpp, if you count ncurses as a gui. https://rybczak.net/ncmpcpp/
On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 1:35 PM King Beowulf <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/25/24 04:17, Richard Owlett wrote: > > Over last 50 years I've had a variety of systems from a KIM-1 to my > > current 64 bit laptop. Never used any for audio. > > > > I've been pointed to some sermons in MP3 format that are a book study in > > Ephesians. I wish to pause playback to take notes. In a later session I > > wish to be able to return to the same time in the presentation. > > > > I have Debian 12 with MATE desktop. When I used Synaptic to search for > > "gui" and "mp3" I got hits whose descriptions touted being "non-GUI" :{ > > Didn't have much better luck with WEB search. Most results were music > > oriented. > > > > Any software suggestions or key words for a productive WEB search? > > > > TIA > > Beside previously mentioned VLC and mplayer (GUI version gmplayer or > gplayer in most distros), for audio and video, there are also numerous > others for audio only, some with library indexing to keep track of audio > file metadata. In no particular order, for X graphical DE (KDE, Xfce, > etc, QT or GTK based): > > audacious (modern descendant of XMMS) > XMMS (original classic X MultiMedia System 1997-2007, modeled after winamp) > XMMS2 (fork of XMMS) > > Elisa > amarok > clementine (fork of amarok) > strawberry (fork or clementine) > atunes (ugh, Java) > sayonara > > and for the CLI: > vitunes-mplayer (curses based frontend for mplayer, with vi key bindings) > > All should have pause functionality, and you can record the time stamp > in your notes to return to specific areas. > > Have fun! > -Ed > > >
