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Dheart

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From: Sofia, Bulgaria

Registered: 2006-10-26

Posts: 956

Re: Music player capable of a large music library

I also used foobar on Windows and loved it. At the moment, I' using mpd+sonata and I like it very much. But I can see that it lacks some features you want, that's just not the way mpd was built.

To be honest, there is nothing that can hold a candle to foobar. Nothing. It's the one program that has no equal counterpart on linux. Give up. I was searching for an alternative a very long time after I switched to linux and just didn't find anything. Mpd and Sonata comes close, but yeah...

So sad, yet true... same story here.

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stefos

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2008-02-14

Posts: 7

Re: Music player capable of a large music library

So far gmusicbrowser does nothing but crash when i try to add music, but Amarok came out really well! I think I'll stick to that one for a while. The standard sqlite db was very slow, but postgresql is very very fast! Importing was a bit slower, but searching, sorting, etc is almost instant!

So just like funkyou, I can recommend using the postgresql backend to anyone with more than a couple of hundred mp3's:P!!! (perhaps the mysql will do also, just didn't try)

Thanks a lot everyone!

Borosai

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From: Sandy Appendix, U.S.A.

Registered: 2006-06-15

Posts: 227

Re: Music player capable of a large music library

If you don't have any objections to using a Java app, you could try aTunes (it's in the AUR, but I haven't used that one - I am currently using it in Windows). I don't have a huge library, but it builds/refreshes the repository quickly. IMO it's worth a look.