Thanks, All. I had written off VLC because I thought of it as a video player.
Now learning how to drive it, and to save playlists with it.
Stephen/Brian, I haven’t found how to avoid streaming, but haven’t given it
much time. VLC does definitely have a very to-the-point style and it will be
I'm using Rhythmbox, and never had it lock on me. If I did, it's usually a
sound device handling issue, but that's more a pulse issue than it. That's
been a long while.
I started using Banshee, which is imho a better clone of Rhythmbox, but far
more buggy. It does some nicer things like
I just checked and VLC has a setting to pause at the end of each track
(Preferences -> Interface -> Pause on last frame of video) and when set
it does exactly that. You start the next track by just clicking the
next track button and away it goes till it hits the end of that track.
I don't
I’m using Clementine to keep playlists, playing songs one at a time.
(I have migrated from my Mac Mini because it’s vintage 2009, out of support. I
looked for a newer Mac Mini but the newest model is five years old. I went to
Linux because I don’t trust Apple or Microsoft not to jerk us around,
