What do you use to play your Tunez?

Zoranthus · 2006-11-30 15:17:57

mplayer (console) for single files/streams and xmms for larger collections.

kasa · 2006-11-30 16:50:01

iphitus wrote:

and on my ipod, rockbox, so no more need for gtkpod or amarok. rockbox kicks ass.

How I wish it worked with 2nd generation ipod nano!

syd · 2006-12-01 03:14:27

Hmmm mpd is really good when your jumping in and out of x.

1st mpd + pympd + ncmpc
2nd amarok

scarney · 2006-12-01 03:34:20

amarok/last.fm ftw!

rabid_dog · 2006-12-06 13:26:33

amaroK
It have many nifty features as album covers, scoring, wikipedia, lyrics, scripts, dcop and cool hotkeys.
Early versions have crashed like mad, but since 1.4.1 it never crashed yet..
amarok really rocks

P.S. Hmm.. Quite interesting that amarok and XMMS is not very popular among Arch users.

[vEX] · 2006-12-06 13:57:32

[vEX] wrote:

Currently Audacious, previously XMMS, though I'm thinking of going back to XMMS or find another player since Audacious GUI isn't that responsive. Sometimes I have to click a button several times before it registers my click.

I've now switched over to MPD + Sonata (and ncmpc for console needs), love it!

superstoned · 2006-12-06 18:29:00

rabid_dog wrote:

amaroK
It have many nifty features as album covers, scoring, wikipedia, lyrics, scripts, dcop and cool hotkeys.
Early versions have crashed like mad, but since 1.4.1 it never crashed yet..
amarok really rocks
P.S. Hmm.. Quite interesting that amarok and XMMS is not very popular among Arch users.

aaah, and great thing: the last.fm integration just got better, with a script on kde-apps to synchronize the last.fm labels with the songs in your collection... labels rule ;-)

scarecrow · 2006-12-06 19:45:45

Amarok, but Songbird seems having a bright future.

daedalusman · 2006-12-06 20:52:24

For me, ever since I first used mpd I have stuck with it. I don't know what I would do without it nor do I know how got a long with out it. Graphical clients are a bit lacking at the moment but gmpc and sonata are both nice and I have seen some new projects that look pretty promising but have yet to try. I also use mpc for when I don't have X running.

Pablo_Escobar · 2006-12-06 20:56:19

MPD + Sonata.
I found about on the screenshots posted here, and fell in love. I already convinced some people to switch to sonata because of its simplicity and power .

superstoned · 2006-12-06 22:31:42

scarecrow wrote:

Amarok, but Songbird seems having a bright future.

songbird looks really cool...

Mozz · 2006-12-07 06:39:39

mpd + ncmpc. I also use Lastfmsubmitd to submit info about songs i have listened to Last.fm.

Gilneas · 2006-12-11 10:42:24

mpg123, mikmod and timidity++ in a script:

IFS="
"
cd /home/music

echo searching for $1

select song in `for word in $1; do
                find ! -type d | grep -i $word | sort
                done`; do
        value=`echo $song | awk -F"/" '{print $2}'`
        if [ $value -lt 010 ];then
                mikmod $song 2>/dev/null 1>/dev/null
        elif [ $value -lt 100 ]; then
                timidity $song 2>/dev/null 1>/dev/null
        else
                mpg123 $song 2>/dev/null 1>/dev/null
        fi
done

Where my songs are sorted by a custom Dewey Decimal System and, conveniently, 000-009 is mod, 010-099 is midi and the rest is mp3.

SenorSnor · 2006-12-11 19:41:53

Audacious. Nice, simple, pretty.

juggz · 2006-12-11 22:34:15

Screen + Cmus

Best combo ever. It's a console app, but is basically like a jukebox with it's different views.

Very customizable colors, displays, views, etc; light on resources; vi like commands; very cool way of searching for a file (ie, either just a regular search, or a search by particular field in tag); last but not least - very versatile (I was able to make a custom status script file that is executed on song change based off one I found online - my script outputs the name of the current song to a text file so that Autoprofile can pick it up and display it in my AIM profile, and I am not a programmer by any means).

If anybody wants my script or needs any help getting started, lemme know (though the man file is very complete).

Here are some pics:

This one is showing the playlist view, those columns can all be rearranged/taken out/etc. You can also change the sort order. The thing down below that says --> | Metallica - Enter Sandman | <-- is the current song, and can also be changed (of course :-) )

This one is showing the play queue. Press a key and the song is queued to be played next. The key is also configurable, that's why I'm not specifying which (I've got it set to Insert).

This one is showing the album view. Some shortcuts can be different depending on view, btw.

This last one is showing off the filters list. You can of course search on the fly, but perhaps you like to filter certain things over and over, and don't like to do it each time - your filters can be saved. Just to give you an idea, the filters, going from top, are doing the following: 1.) showing songs from the 90's (from the file's tags), 2.) showing files that are not streams and have missing tags, 3,4,5.) obviously, showing mp3s, showing oggs, or showing either mp3s or oggs.

Sorry for the wordiness, but this is a really great albeit lesser-known player, and I felt it deserved some of the spotlight amongst the usual focus on Amarok, mpd, xmms, bmp, etc.

japetto · 2006-12-12 15:04:38

That is pretty cool, juggz. Maybe I will give it a whirl.

drfindley · 2006-12-12 15:31:25

mpd/sonata for my media server
exaile at work (it works great with my ipod)

I still dream of Foobar2000 on Linux though

zeppelin · 2006-12-13 01:34:27

cplay

Howitzer · 2006-12-14 06:55:51

Quod Libet all the way
God, i'm just in love with that player :oops:

sokuban · 2006-12-14 07:19:01

Right now I use xmms because it seems to work for me.

I like the sound of this ncpmc thing that way I could listen to music when I restart X and when I am not using X.

Only thing is it complains about,

error [12]: host "localhost" not found

And well music doesn't play. If anyone knows ncmpc well got an idea how to fix this?

Thanks

elasticdog · 2006-12-14 22:00:50

sokuban wrote:

Right now I use xmms because it seems to work for me.
I like the sound of this ncpmc thing that way I could listen to music when I restart X and when I am not using X.
Only thing is it complains about,
error [12]: host "localhost" not found
And well music doesn't play. If anyone knows ncmpc well got an idea how to fix this?
Thanks

Make sure that you have <code>mpd</code> installed and running. I prefer to start it as a daemon upon boot. MPD is the actual music server, and <code>ncmpc</code> in an N-Curses front end that connects with the MPD server and control the playing of music. I think it should be fairly well configured with the default installation, so give that a shot and see if you can connect...

sokuban · 2006-12-15 11:49:05

Oh I see how this works. I'm gonna have to find a good tutorial for this thing.

EDIT: So basically, I made a config file in my home directory, typed mpd. It loaded all my songs and started up. However ncmpc still gives me the localhost not found. Hmm.

stonecrest · 2006-12-15 16:27:03

sokuban wrote:

EDIT: So basically, I made a config file in my home directory, typed mpd. It loaded all my songs and started up. However ncmpc still gives me the localhost not found. Hmm.

Did you remove localhost from your /etc/hosts file or something?

sokuban · 2006-12-16 02:21:39

So that was what it was. Yea I removed localhost from my /etc/hosts. Pretty stupid of me I know. It works!

The reason I removed it was because I changed my hostname from localhost, so I thought it would be ok. But if I change /etc/hosts.conf back to localhost then other programs complain I should put it back to Arche so I put two hosts in the config one for localhost and one for Arche. (Arche is my current hostname.) Nothing seems to screw up yet. I hope this isn't a crazy solution.

EDIT: The man hosts didn't tell me whether it was right or wrong. I must suck at reading man pages. It basically talked about how it used to be used before DNS was there and about the uses it still has. Of course it also showed the format to enter in the hosts.

byte · 2006-12-16 05:40:12

A 'man hosts' would have told you that it is indeed the only right solution.

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