Excerpts from Peter Rundle's message of Mon Aug 03 08:29:57 +1000 2009: > Hi All, > > 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". > > 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. > > Suggestions anyone? > > Thanks > > > Pete >
mpd is very good. It's a server and there are all manner of clients that you can use to access it ranging from the command line (good for mapping to keys in the WM) to gui. It can also be used over the network if needs be. rgh -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
