You might also try Beep Media Player (BMP) besides xmms. The look is very similar but xmms is not really developed any more...
that would work, too. i've been using xmms for so long that i always forget about BMP.
but where are all the plugins? can i just copy the ones from xmms?
]]>I have no problem ripping CDs, however sometime it is just more convient to listen off the disc.
I was REALLY hoping mpd had this option. Basically I would like to use only one audio app to manage music if I could help it. I might give xmms a look then
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having just tried it myself, it's quite awful. the audio is constantly skipping. the program is ripping the audio and playing it at the same time. my ripping capabilities are quite fast, so i don't know why this is happening. i even disabled the paranoia mode (which should make the rip much faster), but it still skipped.
mpd doesn't play audio cds.
i generally rip all my cds and encode them myself. any modern computer should be able to do this faster than real time, so you should be able to listen to your cds right after you start ripping.
or you could get a program designed specifically for playing cds.
]]>But how do I play audio CDs with mpd and Mplayer? Mplayer only has VCD and DVD options
Thanks
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