2009/8/3 Peter Rundle <[email protected]> > I'm after a few opinions about a good music player for Linux (Ubuntu). I > don't like Rhythumbox and Amarok, they use a lot of CPU and I really don't > like their interface. The player is just a boring old rectangular box and I > don't want to see half my music listed as "Track x unknown of unknown".
I'd also like to know one that doesn't use the iTunes library model. I have my music filed quite nicely using the file system thankyouverymuch. I tried Banshee and despite a rather nice UI, it has some features I don't like: you can't just point it at a directory and say "play", it's got a library. It also uses way too much CPU and RAM for something that should be simple, and this is for use on a netbook so CPU is valuable. > What ever happened to X-amp? It had really cool interface (like the > nautilus shell) and had a simple play list display by filename. It used to > run great on machines from five years ago and left plenty of CPU. Rhythumbox > on the other hand went AWOL just now nearly locking up my machine which is > some fan-dangled multi-core multi-Gigahertz processor. Yep, I want something that mimics the old WinAmp. Dumb, just plays the bloody music files I point it at. No bells, no whistles. -- Simon Rumble <[email protected]> -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
