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#1 2009-01-24 15:37:46
- Allan
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mplayer mp3 player frontend
I was doing a clean-up of ackages on my system when I realised that quodlibet was pulling in a lot of packages with gstreamer and its deps. Given I play all my videos with mplayer, I thought why not use it as a backend for my mp3 playback. Does anybody know of a good GTK mplayer frontend for just audio playback?
So far I have found:
pygme: http://pygme.sourceforge.net/
mpxtended: http://mpxtended.wiki.sourceforge.net/
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#2 2009-01-24 15:41:33
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Re: mplayer mp3 player frontend
It may be over simplified, and you probably already though to this, but gnome-mplayer has playlist support. The only downside to using Mplayer as the backend is that it doesn't have gap-less playback.
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#3 2009-01-24 15:46:12
- Allan
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Re: mplayer mp3 player frontend
I should have been more specific. I was wanting something with what I consider "decent" playlist support. So, it knows about albums and artists and it is easy to filter so I can play a single album.
I would really like an interface like:
But anything like rhythmbox would be fine.
Edit: good point about gapless playback though... My Pink Floyd collection will suffer. Maybe I should go to mpd instead.
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#4 2009-01-24 15:57:38
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Re: mplayer mp3 player frontend
If you decide to go with MPD, want a GTK2 front end, and like efficient playlist editing, I'd recommend looking at Ario. Making playlists is so nice with that one.
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#5 2009-01-24 17:01:26
- Allan
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Re: mplayer mp3 player frontend
Hmmm.... mpd+frontend is only saves me 12MB compared to Quodlibet + all gstreamer plugins. So I will stick with that unless someone can suggest a good mplayer mp3 playing frontend.
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#6 2009-01-24 18:17:26
- xaiviax
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Re: mplayer mp3 player frontend
Big fan of gmusicbrowser myself
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#7 2009-01-24 18:18:41
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Re: mplayer mp3 player frontend
If you're willing to forgo the GTK frontend, cplay can use mplayer as a backend.
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#8 2009-01-25 03:20:05
- Allan
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Re: mplayer mp3 player frontend
Big fan of gmusicbrowser myself
That is not too bad. Although I find the interface to be full of cluck... It took me a good five minutes to figure out how to add files to the playlist.
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