a media player that does what i want ..

mune · 2005-08-27 16:31:54

I've been on a seemingly endless search for a media player that doesn't well.. suck in xfce. Here's what I've been through.

amarok - seemed perfect, nice media library and it minimized to the system tray to play music in the background, only problem: it crashes every 30-40 mins. amarok seems to be incredibly unstable, so I ditched that.

xmms - tolerable, quite a bit less features but less memory used as well, only problem is it's long and pain-staking to add all of my music files into it (they're in individual folders by artist) and it won't minimize to the system tray (I can have a system tray icon with the plugin, however I can't hide xmms from the taskbar.)

bmp - wonderful, a gtk2 port of xmms with a plugin that hides and minimizes to system tray, unfortunetly, the plugin was made rather arbitrarily by someone who speaks German so I can't read the majority of his site nor get the plugin to actually compile anyway.

any suggestions would be helpful, however i'd rather not spend eternity configuring some low-level program that requires a portion of my brain to remember all of the documentation and command line arguements. The only features I really need are: something that plays mp3s, hides from the taskbar (preferrably to the system tray), doesn't randomly freeze/crash, and is simple enough to configure.

Kern · 2005-08-27 17:20:37

you tried xine yet ? . Very stable, (for me in xfce4) many plugins / formats supported and very configurable.
not sure how "hidden" you need tho. i havent tried more than just minimising or Shade.

Bysshe · 2005-08-27 17:57:19

why not use mplayer? Man I use mplayer for everything. Even opens streaming video in firefox (with a plugin).

Karma XXL · 2005-08-27 18:58:26

Rhythmbox is like amaroK, except for it's GTK2 based, and has a little less features. It can be compiled with GStreamer and Xine as a backend.

Mpd is client-server based, yet it's easy to configure, and there are a ton of clients for it. Though the last time I used it was in Gentoo, months ago, the only thing I had to do to get it running is 1) set my music directory 2) make it refresh the collection 3) start the daemon. Easy as 1-2-3

Mikos · 2005-08-27 19:08:53

Amarok is not unstable, I didn't have any problem with it. It is absolutely stable for me. Maybe you are using bad sound engine - I can recommend GStreamer (amarok-engine-gst in pacman).

Karma XXL · 2005-08-27 19:21:18

Yeah, I forgot to mention that even amarok-svn is rock solid here. I use it all the time

murkus · 2005-08-27 20:06:05

I had issues with amarok until I tried different sound engines, currently happy with amarok + xine-engine.

I think amarok is huge amounts better than rhythmbox. But it's just my opinion. I don't want to start pissing contest..

tranquility · 2005-08-27 20:56:24

mune wrote:

bmp - wonderful, a gtk2 port of xmms with a plugin that hides and minimizes to system tray, unfortunetly, the plugin was made rather arbitrarily by someone who speaks German so I can't read the majority of his site nor get the plugin to actually compile anyway.

I suggest this http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?d … s=1&ID=563

mune · 2005-08-28 00:28:10

Thank you all so much for the speedy and info-filled response, ArchLinux definitely has the best community of any linux distro i've ever encountered, right now i'm trying amarok with a couple different engines to see if they crash any less.

MartinZ · 2005-08-28 16:05:26

Try wxMusik, it's available in AUR. Simple, nice, lightweight, rock solid, lots of features
(i also had lots of problems with amarok stability, and it is very recurses-hungry)

FUBAR · 2005-08-28 17:24:44

mune wrote:

xmms - tolerable, quite a bit less features but less memory used as well, only problem is it's long and pain-staking to add all of my music files into it (they're in individual folders by artist) and it won't minimize to the system tray (I can have a system tray icon with the plugin, however I can't hide xmms from the taskbar.)

You can add directories recursively. I simply add my root-MP3 folder and everything's there!

Cotton · 2005-08-28 23:42:05

Try madman.

Similar to amarok in functionality but faster and not so resource intensive, if you have lots of files. Allows you to search all your music directories (using metatag data) and has a good ratings system. Also has its own web server for streaming.

tomk · 2005-08-29 22:16:32

As you're using xfce, have a look at xfmedia. It does everything on your wishlist - read the AUR comments and this thread first though.

DethKnight · 2006-03-30 06:00:30

tomk wrote:

As you're using xfce, have a look at xfmedia. It does everything on your wishlist - read the AUR comments and this thread first though.

If you can get it to install, the process of which is cryptically documented at best

I almost installed this to see if it would play *.wma files, but found it far simpler to compile & install the xmms-wma from source code downloaded from an unrelated repository. ( just my 2 cents is all)

sputnik · 2006-03-30 06:28:17

Maybe quodlibet ?

iphitus · 2006-03-30 07:27:25

DethKnight wrote:

tomk wrote:
As you're using xfce, have a look at xfmedia. It does everything on your wishlist - read the AUR comments and this thread first though.

If you can get it to install, the process of which is cryptically documented at best
I almost installed this to see if it would play *.wma files, but found it far simpler to compile & install the xmms-wma from source code downloaded from an unrelated repository. ( just my 2 cents is all)

Cryptically documented? Look in the AUR and use a PKGBUILD there, or enable [shadowhand]'s repo and pacman -S xfmedia-cvs.

Besides... this is a way old thread.. let it die natually

(mpd!)

mpie · 2006-03-30 08:24:42

Before it die's I'm gonna add Boombox to the list, it's in aur

postlogic · 2006-03-30 10:37:27

tomk wrote:

As you're using xfce, have a look at xfmedia. It does everything on your wishlist - read the AUR comments and this thread first though.

And I thought I was the only one using xfmedia.

You can use xfmedia-svn from Shadowhand's repos, too, if you want. Works perfectly.

It's slim, fast and easy to use, without all the bloat. It doesn't try to do more than it should. It let's you make a playlist, and then play it. Period.

Pablo_Escobar · 2006-03-30 13:12:26

If the only thing keeping You from using BMP is hiding in the taskabar then You've got two options :
- Use Audacious -> BMP is no longer developed, and Audacious is the continuation work. (It has a taskbar icon option)
- Use Alltray -> a handy little program to make taskbar hideable programs, which don't have that option by themselves
Both of these are in AUR.

josolanes · 2006-03-30 13:22:49

Jamboree is also pretty nice and works well with a music collection. It doesn't, however, minimize to the system tray

EDIT: i just tried quodlibet as per sputnik's suggestion and i really like it . Very nice, full-featured music collection manager. This has replaced jamboree for me

luisrobles · 2006-03-30 17:13:07

Banshee is a good option, but don't "take" every mp3 (Use system tray).
BTW, you want a mp3 player only??

DDspeed · 2006-03-30 17:33:16

A vote for MPD from me. I use it all the time. The GTK client gmpc supports tray icon. I'm also very happy with the client-server approach. It's nice that I can restart GDM and the music won't stop . I can use multiple clients at once, which is also cool.

whompus · 2006-03-30 17:51:35

Another vote for wxmusik

I use wxmusik in xfce and when you change to a different workspace it automatically hides in the system tray.

hobbes · 2006-04-09 02:46:55

My vote is for gmusicbrowser, fast and featured-packed, it lacks radio and ipod supports but I don't need that.

Kin · 2006-05-07 08:40:06

Hi,

I currenty searching for the following player which

- I can listen to internet radio streams
- Record those streams and automatically splits the files according to their titles.

Which of the above mentioned can do this ?

Kin

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