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peets

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From: Montreal

Registered: 2007-01-11

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I'm looking for a music player with the following features:

Hi everyone,

I'm setting up a linux desktop for the first time. I'd like some directions on finding a music player. Here are my criteria, in order of importance:

  - Can play (at least) ogg, mp3 and wav
  - Prefers a 'playlist approach' (m3u) to a 'media library' approach
  - Can play songs without breaks in-between
  - Fast startup
  - Simple interface (ex. VLC beats mplayer)

My window manager is pekwm. This is for usability reasons, not performance reasons - my comp. can handle all the bells and whistles you throw at it (actually, I tried with my doorbell, but I wouldn't recommend with the church bell). (sorry for the bad humour). Crazy visualisations and features whose sole purposes are to eat up CPU cycles are O.K.

Good support for keyboard would be appreciated - I am a pekwm user.

So what have you got?

tom5760

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From: Philadelphia, PA, USA

Registered: 2006-02-05

Posts: 283

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Re: I'm looking for a music player with the following features:

You should check out MPD with some of the various frontends for it.  I just use the text-based ncmpc, and it works great for me.  I believe ncmpc+mpd fits all of your criteria, so maybe you should check it out.

Look here to get started -> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mpd

mucknert

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From: Berlin // Germany

Registered: 2006-06-27

Posts: 510

Re: I'm looking for a music player with the following features:

If you are a console-user, too, you could try orpheus from the AUR. I believe it does everything you want and maybe even a little bit more.

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High|ander

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From: Skövde, Sweden

Registered: 2005-10-28

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Re: I'm looking for a music player with the following features:

mpd ++

Fast, easy and has a good interface (Sonata)

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Ramses de Norre

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From: Leuven - Belgium

Registered: 2007-03-27

Posts: 1,289

Re: I'm looking for a music player with the following features:

Mpd + sonata is sweet

Roberth

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From: The Pale Blue Dot

Registered: 2007-01-12

Posts: 894

Re: I'm looking for a music player with the following features:

Mpd + sonata is sweet

Ill put an vote for that to:)

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hacosta

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From: Mexico

Registered: 2006-10-22

Posts: 423

Re: I'm looking for a music player with the following features:

mp3blaster is fine

pelle.k

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From: Åre, Sweden (EU)

Registered: 2006-04-30

Posts: 667

Re: I'm looking for a music player with the following features:

bmp with multimedia keyboard control plugin. You don't need the plugin really, since you can control it from command line e.g. xbindkeys or whatever..
mp3blaster is nice if you want it to be console based though.

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patroclo7

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From: Bassano del Grappa, ITALY

Registered: 2006-01-11

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Re: I'm looking for a music player with the following features:

consider also mocp

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nesrecar

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From: Germany/Munich

Registered: 2004-06-06

Posts: 79

Re: I'm looking for a music player with the following features:

MPD rocks, runs here for months without major problems.

The client side is very flexible, you can choose many players:

http://www.musicpd.org/clients.shtml

For X, for console, etc..

Edit:

MPD supports Icecast also, to create streams.

Last edited by mephisto (2007-05-15 14:00:36)

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xerverius

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Registered: 2004-11-02

Posts: 230

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Re: I'm looking for a music player with the following features:

You can also try Audacious.

Susu

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From: Germany

Registered: 2005-11-11

Posts: 191

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Re: I'm looking for a music player with the following features:

There's mp3blaster, cmus and a few other I can't recall. I favour mp3blaster but in fact I'm an amarok fangirl... ;-)

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detto

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Registered: 2006-01-23

Posts: 510

Re: I'm looking for a music player with the following features:

+1 for Sonata here too. It fulfills all your described needs. Also take a look at pygmy and gimmix.

phrakture

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Re: I'm looking for a music player with the following features:

I'm gonna vote for sonata, because stonecrest is cool

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[vEX]

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2006-11-23

Posts: 450

Re: I'm looking for a music player with the following features:

MPD with Sonata as the client gets my vote too.

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Sigi

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From: Thurgau, Switzerland

Registered: 2005-09-22

Posts: 1,131

Re: I'm looking for a music player with the following features:

MPD and ncmpc-svn ftw!

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peets

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From: Montreal

Registered: 2007-01-11

Posts: 936

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Re: I'm looking for a music player with the following features:

Hmphm I'm a bit overwhelmed! I'll try these soon and give a few comments. Thanks for all your input!

EDIT: Wow, 'Hmphm'. Onomatopea that could be a software name...

Last edited by peets (2007-05-15 23:13:14)

whacker

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Registered: 2007-05-03

Posts: 5

Re: I'm looking for a music player with the following features:

discovered mpd and sonata by looking at this post. I'm amazed. I'll give Ampache a try now.

Cotton

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From: Cornwall, UK

Registered: 2004-09-17

Posts: 568

Re: I'm looking for a music player with the following features:

Is Ampache as good as it looks?  How does it compare with kplaylist?

mrB

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Registered: 2007-05-16

Posts: 28

Re: I'm looking for a music player with the following features:

You can also try Audacious.

Can Audacious do gapless playback?