Try my Goggles Music Manager (http://fifthplanet.net/gmm.html). It is fairly lightweight. It uses xine as a player backend and sqllite to store its data. No editing of tags supported though, and only ogg and mp3 are supported for playback. It's in AUR (musicmanager) or you can download the package itself (or source if you insist).
Hmm a fox front end for MPD would be light......
]]>If anyone finds something that just loads quickly, plays flac and i can browse my music by album please let me know. Thanks! Oh I tried gmusicbrowser damn it's fast but it doesn't have utf8 support which makes it useless to me, oh well!
MPD + client. Loads fast, plays flac, can sort by album. 8)
Unfortunately, it does not let you edit tags. :x
]]>If anyone finds something that just loads quickly, plays flac and i can browse my music by album please let me know. Thanks! Oh I tried gmusicbrowser damn it's fast but it doesn't have utf8 support which makes it useless to me, oh well!
]]>(Then again, use MPD and you won't need tagging. 8) )
]]>What exactly is it about foobar2000? I just downloaded and installed it using wine because I've read many posts on different forums from users saying that foobar2k is there favorite music player and they were searching for something like that for Linux. Now that I tried it out (works pretty fine with wine btw.) I still don't understand why everybody says it's the best player around. There's nothing special other players don't have. Maybe anyone can shed some light on that?
Well it's the things you can do with it, It can play almost any format, mass tagger, encode/decode almost any format. It's also highly customizable, you can completely change the look and buttons with coloumns UI. The reason I like it is for the amazing sound quality and it uses hardly any resources at all and I think it's important that audio players try to remain as light as possible, as i've noticed heavier ones often skipping when you move files and do other heavy things like compiling. When I first used foobar i never really liked it either, but the more I used it the more I noticed how great an audio player it really is. Oh and the new beta also has a cd ripper in it, all these amazing features and yet it's so light.
]]>Hmm.. it's a touchy subject i've always thought Linux audio players were awful and yea most of them are compared to foobar2k. I've been using Quodlibet since it was first released and I always thought it had the best interface out of all linux audio players, however it is also one of the heaviest although you wouldn't think so because of it's slim look, it's also slow at adding files to the database I don't have much music maybe 1,600 flacs and it takes about 5mins. (amd 64 3200 and 1GB ram)
MPD on the other hand has always been the best performance wise but there has never been a frontend for it yet that I actually enjoy using, but I do enjoy some of the features like gapless playback and what not. I'm always looking for new audio players hoping something like foobar2k will pop up one day, but no such luck yet, i'm sure they'll all steadily improve though. I've also noticed python audio players are quite slow compared to the others, but maybe that's just me.
What exactly is it about foobar2000? I just downloaded and installed it using wine because I've read many posts on different forums from users saying that foobar2k is there favorite music player and they were searching for something like that for Linux. Now that I tried it out (works pretty fine with wine btw.) I still don't understand why everybody says it's the best player around. There's nothing special other players don't have. Maybe anyone can shed some light on that?
]]>MPD on the other hand has always been the best performance wise but there has never been a frontend for it yet that I actually enjoy using, but I do enjoy some of the features like gapless playback and what not. I'm always looking for new audio players hoping something like foobar2k will pop up one day, but no such luck yet, i'm sure they'll all steadily improve though. I've also noticed python audio players are quite slow compared to the others, but maybe that's just me.
]]>What i hate about it is:
- highweight
- much dependencies (at least for non-kde users)
- resources hungry
- crashes
But it has lots of features, it is a very good application. I would love something like amarok, but gtk-based (or efl-based!!)
]]>.murkus
]]>Which one shall i use? I know very little about each one:
wxMusik: uses mysql database (cool!), but it crashes a lot during startup
Don't use ALSA driver with it.
]]>Quodlibet is painfully slow with lots of files, and also crashed for me due to incorrectly formed name tags. Agree it looks promising though.
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