>Thanks Adam. Other people have recommended I use RhythmBox (because it >uses ALSA). It's a bit clunky compared to xmms - any other ALSA music >players people could recommend? > >-- >Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238.
Once you've '/home/user/.asoundrc' with dmix set up, it's not reallly an issue. Personally, after trying them all out I settled on using mplayer from the command line. It operates faster and more efficiently in terms of memory than any GUI based app, most of which use ALSA anyway. Eg, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Media/Audio$ mplayer -playlist *****.ram [or .wav or .mp3 or whatever] MPlayer 2:0.99+1.0pre8-0ubuntu8 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team .. [and so on] .. Getting you head around 'man mplayer' can be a bit daunting at first but in practice you only need a few relevant commands unless you wish to become an mplayer guru. It's a good idea to have a comprehensive codec selection and update frequently, simple on debian based systems. The difficult bit can be getting the initial *.ram or .asx files for streaming media, and staying in touch with changes on their websites. Cheers, Adam. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
