Good light media player [not qt!]

Mr Green · 2008-11-27 16:44:24

I have been running Exaile for a long time ..... looking to find a better player that is not qt based.

Need something that can handle Death Metal lol... audio cd's playlists ipod etc...

Banshee refused to play anything not sure what the problem is with it

Or should I wait to Exaile 3?

Thanks

moljac024 · 2008-11-27 16:45:24

What about mpd ? You can use Sonata as a front-end.

Can't get much lighter than that...

Gullible Jones · 2008-11-27 16:50:28

Gmusicbrowser? Ugly and takes up a lot of screen space, but reasonably light (I think).

There's also:
- MPD - not my favorite but it works.
- Consonance - very light.
- Aqualung - don't know much about it, presumably lighter than most GST based players.

TecnoVM64 · 2008-11-27 17:17:58

Well after my research I'll tell you what I found:
- Rhythmbox (looks like iTunes and it's GTK, supports iPods nicely, it's one of the best I found so far, sometimes it does segfault for no reason though)
- Quodlibet (light, supports plugins, ipods, etc)
- MPD + Sonata (no ipod, no audio cd, but it's light and works good too, gapless playback)
- BMPx (no ipod, looks good, audio cds, cover fetching doesn't work)
- Songbird (looks insanely good, a little bit slow, supports ipods, cover fetching, browsing, dunno about audio cds though, I think you still have to try it, songbird-nightly on AUR)
- Bluemindo (plays music, cover fetching doesn't work for me, no ipod, no audio cd)
- Aqualung (you've never seen such an ugly music player, supports a lot of things that I don't know how to use, gapless playback, light and fast, audio cd too, no ipod)
- Banshee (looks good, supports ipod, audio cd, cover fetching, no gapless playback, slowwwwwwwwwwwwwwww and crashes A LOT)
- Consonance (never got it to work, crashes on startup)
will update as soon as I try more

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Mr Green · 2008-11-27 17:18:27

mpd is super light.... but I always had problems setting it up [me is dumb!]

Banshee and Amarok are monsters .... Consonance emmm

elmer_42 · 2008-11-27 17:58:04

I would recommend MPD or Quod Libet. I've used both successfully and enjoyed them. Regarding MPD's setup, have you tried using ArchWiki's MPD article? It must be noted that some of the graphical MPD clients are very bloated. I would say that my favorite MPD client is ncmpc++, which is available in the AUR.

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Mr Green · 2008-11-27 18:08:29

Its odd I just tried to load a cd in Exaile and it says I need python-cddb and I have it installed :-(

Banshee has all the bells and whistles but its mono and its very bloated

Rhythmbox maybe I will try it

Mpd say would not have a problem with it, just I'm getting lazy in my old age need stuff to work out of the box hehe

sand_man · 2008-11-27 23:00:22

I suggest you give mpd another try because it really isn't as hard as you think.

TecnoVM64 · 2008-11-28 02:18:51

Well I'm currently using MPD + Sonata because I don't feel good without gapless playback (which rhythmbox doesn't support, unless you enable the crossfading backend that is buggy as hell)
I guess I'll only use gtkpod for my iPod.

Allan · 2008-11-28 03:03:36

Mr Green wrote:

Its odd I just tried to load a cd in Exaile and it says I need python-cddb and I have it installed :-(

Can you file a bug report for that so I remember to look into it? Thanks.

Anyway, I will second the recommendation for Quodlibet as a light music player that has all the features you asked (some require plugins).

Mr Green · 2008-11-28 14:28:22

filed and closed, odd that dep is not in main repo? ..... can the package be added ???

EDIT ......Read AUR package has been added yay!

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GogglesGuy · 2008-11-28 21:08:13

TecnoVM64 wrote:

Well after my research I'll tell you what I found:
- Quodlibet (light, supports plugins, ipods, etc)

What do you consider light in Quod Libet?

TecnoVM64 · 2008-11-28 21:20:33

light as in non-bloated, imo though.

Inkaine · 2008-11-28 22:46:54

Thanks for this thread. Been looking for something like this for the last week as well after I had thrown rhythmbox of my drive. Wonder how you can recommend that piece of software, that is IMO far from lightweight, has an awful playlist management and crashes way more often than other players I'm used to. Since then I've been happily running Exaile. It's got all features I wanted to have, as used from Amarok.

Only problem for me there: it's running on gstreamer. After I had to replace totem with totem-xine (the former not playing dvds) I'd like to get back to only one multimedia engine. Hope I don't hijack this thread if I ask which of the aforementioned recommended players supports xine.

Mr Green · 2008-11-29 06:38:42

Well Exaile seems to do what I want...now

MPD well its light very light

Songbird well that is a diferent story :-)

TecnoVM64 · 2008-11-30 00:25:31

Inkaine wrote:

Thanks for this thread. Been looking for something like this for the last week as well after I had thrown rhythmbox of my drive. Wonder how you can recommend that piece of software, that is IMO far from lightweight, has an awful playlist management and crashes way more often than other players I'm used to.

Yeah, it does crash a lot, although I kinda like it, I wish it supported gapless playback (without enabling the crossfading backend, what an ugly hack!), and yeah it's not really lightweight but looks good at least

DonVla · 2008-11-30 00:58:00

highly recommended: gmusicbrowser
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=3687
http://squentin.free.fr/gmusicbrowser/g … owser.html

vlad

btw, it´s quite light-weight when you use it only with mplayer or mpg123/ogg123/flac123. of course, you could also use gstreamer.

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qstreb · 2008-12-15 06:47:02

or try this

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=48445&p=1

Wintervenom · 2008-12-15 07:14:11

It appears somone beat me to it.

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Mr Green · 2008-12-15 07:49:51

Nice very light ....

Themaister · 2008-12-15 11:21:37

I can suggest Consonance http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=46171 Very light, and quite functional so far!

mashen · 2012-03-25 01:11:44

Oh God I F** love this thread. Recommended for anyone looking for good media players. I'm using pragha right now, many thanks to everyone, specially TecnoVM64. I know it's a liiiitle bit old, but seriously, it deserves to be bumped up.

ninjaprawn · 2012-03-27 16:58:03

you had a look at goggles music player?? I really like it and its very light weight... plus does everything I want and simple to use... not sure about ipods though, never had one lol

pacman -S gogglesmm

Stebalien · 2012-03-27 23:59:21

@mashen: Information that should be kept is added to the wiki (in this case: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … io_players). Necro-bumping is generally discouraged unless you are adding really important information as old threads tend to include out of date information (for example: Consonance -> Pragha). See the forum etiquette wiki page for more information: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … Bumping.22

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