Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-11-26 Thread Octavio Ruiz (Ta^3)
audacious is a good one! how come? How come nobody mentioned mpd? now that's lite and it has all one could want(based on it's clients): command line interface, gtk, qt u name it as for functionality as well pick a client based on what u want, now mpd with sonata as client

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-11-07 Thread ionut cristian cucu
audacious is a good one!how come? How come nobody mentioned mpd? now that's lite and it has all one could want(based on it's clients): command line interface, gtk, qt u name it as for functionality as well pick a client based on what u want, now mpd with sonata as client consumes less

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-11-07 Thread Bira
On 11/7/06, ionut cristian cucu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: audacious is a good one! how come? How come nobody mentioned mpd? now that's lite and it has all one could want(based on it's clients): command line interface, gtk, qt u name it as for functionality as well pick a client based on what u

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-28 Thread Sarah
Dotan Cohen wrote: On 23/10/06, Arnau Bria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:08:08 -0400 Dave V wrote: Hello, Hi, I just read on the gentoo-dev list that xmms is about to be removed, but it's probably the only sound player that I've used. Could someone recommend a good

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-28 Thread Myk Taylor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I had my music collection mounted over nfs and I ran into a similar problem: amarok wouldn't be able to read the entire thing and the nfs shares would stop working. The problem turned out to be that amarok keeps all these files /open/ and the remote

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-28 Thread Graham Murray
Myk Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The problem turned out to be that amarok keeps all these files /open/ and the remote share runs out of resources. I'm using audacious now without problems. Are you sure that Amarok keeps the files open? This would break even on a local filesystem. I am

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-28 Thread Chuanwen Wu
audacious is a good one! 2006/10/23, Dave V [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, I just read on the gentoo-dev list that xmms is about to be removed, but it's probably the only sound player that I've used. Could someone recommend a good alternative. I'm rather surprised that no one wanted to maintain

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-27 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Walter Dnes wrote: f) it has no good alternative :-( it has. amarok, alsaplayer, xine [m3000][root][~] emerge --ask alsaplayer These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-27 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 27 October 2006 07:03, Mark Knecht wrote: It hasn't been supported for a long time. That said there is a new maintainer who just took it over last week so don't give up totally on alsaplayer. It was good for its day. it was great for testing dmix and hardware mixing - having 8

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-27 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Daniel Barkalow wrote: xine == almost as bloated as Windows Media Player. I want a simple *AUDIO PLAYER* dammit, not some honking big multi-media package that takes forever to build. I've had problems building xine, and swear by mplayer. I'd sooner use mplayer than xine. amarok == Even

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-27 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 02:20 -0400, Daniel Barkalow wrote: On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Walter Dnes wrote: f) it has no good alternative :-( it has. amarok, alsaplayer, xine [m3000][root][~] emerge --ask alsaplayer These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-27 Thread sean
Is Audacious able to pull in CD info from the Internet? I see know way to configure for that function. Thanks -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-27 Thread Robert Cernansky
On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 11:25:02 -0400 sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is Audacious able to pull in CD info from the Internet? I see know way to configure for that function. Preferences - Plugins - CD Audio Plugin - Preferences - CD Info Robert -- Robert Cernansky E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-26 Thread Walter Dnes
f) it has no good alternative :-( it has. amarok, alsaplayer, xine [m3000][root][~] emerge --ask alsaplayer These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy alsaplayer. OK guys, where is alsaplayer hiding?

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-26 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 27 October 2006 06:00, Walter Dnes wrote: f) it has no good alternative :-( it has. amarok, alsaplayer, xine [m3000][root][~] emerge --ask alsaplayer These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On 10/26/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 27 October 2006 06:00, Walter Dnes wrote: f) it has no good alternative :-( it has. amarok, alsaplayer, xine [m3000][root][~] emerge --ask alsaplayer These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-25 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 24 October 2006 22:29, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Tuesday 24 October 2006 22:59, Willie Wong wrote: I have one question about xmms alternatives: xmms has this remote control feature that I use a lot (I have keys on my multimedia keyboard bound to remote controls and also

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-25 Thread Robin Atwood
On Wednesday 25 October 2006 13:49, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 24 October 2006 22:29, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Tuesday 24 October 2006 22:59, Willie Wong wrote: I have one question about xmms alternatives: xmms has this remote control feature that I use a lot (I have keys on my

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-25 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 25 October 2006 08:49, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 24 October 2006 22:29, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Tuesday 24 October 2006 22:59, Willie Wong wrote: I have one question about xmms alternatives: xmms has this remote control feature that I use a lot (I have keys on my

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-24 Thread Graham Murray
Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I recommend the use of the xine engine in amarok. There are no real plugins to speak of that you need, although I do have the following use flags: But it would be nice if Musicbrainz support was put back in. This was removed because of security problems

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 20:04:20 -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote: !!! Problem resolving dependencies for kde-base/kde-meta !!! Depgraph creation failed. This is after I unmerged kopete because it was the requiring dependency and I don't use it. Kopete is a dependency of kde-meta, unmerge it and

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-24 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 24 October 2006 11:59, Neil Bothwick wrote: You need to re-emerge Kopete after removing xmms from your USE flags. He doesn't need to remove it manually since the xmms use flag has been masked in the base profile. Just use --newuse... -- Bo Andresen pgp4mRdV6GiSr.pgp Description:

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 12:21:10 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: You need to re-emerge Kopete after removing xmms from your USE flags. He doesn't need to remove it manually since the xmms use flag has been masked in the base profile. Just use --newuse... You need to re-emerge Kopete after

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-24 Thread Willie Wong
I have one question about xmms alternatives: xmms has this remote control feature that I use a lot (I have keys on my multimedia keyboard bound to remote controls and also certain voice commands bound to playing and stopping of music), can someone point me to an alternative of xmms that also

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-24 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 24 October 2006 22:59, Willie Wong wrote: I have one question about xmms alternatives: xmms has this remote control feature that I use a lot (I have keys on my multimedia keyboard bound to remote controls and also certain voice commands bound to playing and stopping of music), can

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-24 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Willie Wong wrote: I have one question about xmms alternatives: xmms has this remote control feature that I use a lot (I have keys on my multimedia keyboard bound to remote controls and also certain voice commands bound to playing and stopping of music), can someone

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-23 Thread Kristian Poul Herkild
Dave V skrev: Hello, I just read on the gentoo-dev list that xmms is about to be removed, but it's probably the only sound player that I've used. Could someone recommend a good alternative. I'm rather surprised that no one wanted to maintain the packages. Dave Well, you can always use

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-23 Thread Ilya Hegai
2006/10/23, Dave V [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, I just read on the gentoo-dev list that xmms is about to be removed, but it's probably the only sound player that I've used. Could someone recommend a good alternative. audacious is a bmpx fork which is a xmms fork you can try both I'm rather

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-23 Thread Arnau Bria
On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:08:08 -0400 Dave V wrote: Hello, Hi, I just read on the gentoo-dev list that xmms is about to be removed, but it's probably the only sound player that I've used. Could someone recommend a good alternative. I'm rather surprised that no one wanted to maintain the

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-23 Thread Korthrun
On 10/23/06, Arnau Bria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:08:08 -0400 Dave V wrote: Hello, Hi, I just read on the gentoo-dev list that xmms is about to be removed, but it's probably the only sound player that I've used. Could someone recommend a good alternative. I'm rather

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-23 Thread Arnau Bria
On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:10:42 -0700 Korthrun Korthrun wrote: I've never been an xmms fan, the GUI has just never felt right, something about the app didn't suit my tastes. I've been use mpg123, mplayer and mpd depending on what I want. Maybe Amarok will not fit you... If u don't like GUI,

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-23 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 23 October 2006 14:39, Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: Dave V skrev: Hello, I just read on the gentoo-dev list that xmms is about to be removed, but it's probably the only sound player that I've used. Could someone recommend a good alternative. If you are using KDE anyway, try amaroK

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-23 Thread Mick
On Monday 23 October 2006 16:27, Uwe Thiem wrote: On 23 October 2006 14:39, Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: Dave V skrev: Hello, I just read on the gentoo-dev list that xmms is about to be removed, but it's probably the only sound player that I've used. Could someone recommend a

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-23 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 23 October 2006 14:08, Dave V wrote: Hello, I just read on the gentoo-dev list that xmms is about to be removed, but it's probably the only sound player that I've used. Could someone recommend a good alternative. I'm rather surprised that no one wanted to maintain the packages.

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-23 Thread Robert Cernansky
On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:02:27 +0200 Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a) it is dead. For years b) it depends on a dead toolkit with godknowswhat security problems c) it becomes harder and harder to keep it alive d) the devs have better things to do than playing ICU for

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-23 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 23 October 2006 19:33, Robert Cernansky wrote: e) it works fine f) it has no good alternative :-( g) noone prevents you from using it as long as it still works h) if you really want it in the tree feel free to maintain it (you'll find it's no longer maintainable...) -- Bo

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-23 Thread Mick
On Monday 23 October 2006 17:26, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Monday 23 October 2006 18:06, Mick wrote: Meanwhile, I noticed that xmms is now a blocker!?  Why's that? Firstly it isn't a blocker! It's masked. In a month it will be removed (or rather it will probably be moved to an overlay.

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-23 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 23 October 2006 19:33, Robert Cernansky wrote: On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:02:27 +0200 Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a) it is dead. For years b) it depends on a dead toolkit with godknowswhat security problems c) it becomes harder and harder to keep it alive

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-23 Thread b.n.
Maybe Amarok will not fit you... If u don't like GUI, Amarok is not your program... Though apparently we should be using amarok so I'll have to give that a whirl. Well, I suppose you noticed my joking tone in message... I was a diehard XMMS fan. Then I noticed news about its imminent death,

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-23 Thread david
Arnau Bria wrote: On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:08:08 -0400 Dave V wrote: Hello, Hi, I just read on the gentoo-dev list that xmms is about to be removed, but it's probably the only sound player that I've used. Could someone recommend a good alternative. I'm rather surprised that

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On 10/23/06, david [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arnau Bria wrote: On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:08:08 -0400 Dave V wrote: Hello, Hi, I just read on the gentoo-dev list that xmms is about to be removed, but it's probably the only sound player that I've used. Could someone recommend a good

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-23 Thread Richard Fish
On 10/23/06, Arnau Bria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you should, not should, you MUST use Amarok :-) amarok++ -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-23 Thread Richard Fish
On 10/23/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Bo, I remember reading the first thread some time ago. I guess it's time to move on. Just emerge amarok and it looks great! Tried to play a stream and it fell apart: === Error Loading Media No

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-23 Thread Mick
On Monday 23 October 2006 21:59, Richard Fish wrote: Plays OK for me. Bring up the play list, click Add-Radio Stream, enter the URL. The right click on the new radio stream, and do Load. That should give you a from live.str3am.com/ in the play list, click on it and hit play. Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-23 Thread Richard Fish
On 10/23/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Richard. I think I have found a bug - or double-click doesn't always work as expected. It seems that this is coming up as an intermittent error. Anyway, assuming that I have now played this stream and I would like to add it to one of my

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-23 Thread Daniel D Jones
On Monday 23 October 2006 14:03, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Monday 23 October 2006 19:33, Robert Cernansky wrote: e) it works fine f) it has no good alternative :-( g) noone prevents you from using it as long as it still works h) if you really want it in the tree feel free to maintain

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-23 Thread Dale
Daniel D Jones wrote: On Monday 23 October 2006 14:03, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Monday 23 October 2006 19:33, Robert Cernansky wrote: e) it works fine f) it has no good alternative :-( g) noone prevents you from using it as long as it still works h) if you really want it in the tree

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-23 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
From: Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 20:41:29 -0500 Daniel D Jones wrote: On Monday 23 October 2006 14:03, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Monday 23 October 2006 19:33, Robert Cernansky wrote: e) it works fine f) it has no good

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative

2006-10-23 Thread Richard Fish
On 10/23/06, Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: solfire:/rootemerge --pretend --tree --verbose --update --deep world Add --newuse, so that everything that used to have a xmms use flag can be rebuilt. [ebuild R ] media-sound/normalize-0.7.6-r2 USE=mad nls -audiofile*