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jvaldezjr

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Registered: 2010-02-26

Posts: 28

Best featured "non-bloat" audio library aoftware out there?

I've serached for several days, and read many reviews about different types of players, music library organizers, etc.  Comming from KDE my favorite (and still is) is Amarok, but I do not really care much for the interface now as it moves through 2.0, and contstantly reminds me of my dislike for KDE4.  Not to mention, I'm trying to avoid having any KDE overhead installed on my system, but I just recently put K3B on, and I may have to bite the KDE bullet.

I've tried the following GTK ones, however I get loaded down with GNOME dependencies, which to me are no different than having KDE libs/dependencies installed:
Sonata
Banshee
Exaile
Songbird
Rhythmbox
Qoud Libet

All require some type of GNOME dependencies.  What I'm looking for is something without all the dependencies and similiar functionality to Amarok (devices, album art, lyrics, podcasts, internet radio streaming, all in one place).  Maybe it's too much to ask?

The only one that had potential was ATunes, written in Java, but some of the functionality is messed up.  When I minimize the window, it would dissappear, the tray icon never showed up, and the fonts did not display properly.  other than that it functioned like what I was looking for.

anonymous_user

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Registered: 2009-08-28

Posts: 3,059

Re: Best featured "non-bloat" audio library aoftware out there?

If you don't mind a Qt dependency, try Clementine:

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=34950

Also what Gnome dependencies are needed for Sonata? And Quod Libet just needs gstreamer plugins.

jvaldezjr

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Registered: 2010-02-26

Posts: 28

Re: Best featured "non-bloat" audio library aoftware out there?

I dont remember off the top of my head- one that annoyed me was gnome-keyring, there were a few.  Same with Amarok- it ended up installing KDE Wallet, which was another annoyance.  I based it off of whatever showed up when I used Pacman -S sonata.  I'm writing this from my wife's machine which is running windows so I cant tell you which ones.

Also, I figured out my problems with ATunes was related to the version of Java I'm running- Atunes needs Sun's JRE, not the Open Source version, so I'll be using ATunes now.

ngoonee

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From: Between Thailand and Singapore

Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 7,362

Re: Best featured "non-bloat" audio library aoftware out there?

Bloat versus features...unending debate. just use mpd with mpc, that's what I do.

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agapito

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Registered: 2008-11-13

Posts: 703

Re: Best featured "non-bloat" audio library aoftware out there?

I know is not amarok style, but i love qmmp (qt4 winamp clone) It's light, fast and stable. I found my songs very fast on my playlist (18.000 songs) searching with key J

If you want something similar to amarok you can test cuberok   " yaourt -S cuberok "

Cuberok is a music player and a collection manager based on Qt4. It has lightweight interface, music collection support and many features, e.g. music autorating and Last.FM scrobbler.
Features
English and Russian interface.
CUE support. Codepage selection for CUE sheets
Shoutcast/icecast support (for GStreamer and Phonon)
Support internet services Jamendo and MagnaTune (New in v.0.0.9)
Last.FM and Libre.FM scrobblers
Downloading images for albums and artists from Last.FM
Loading artist and album info from Last.FM, loading lyrics from LyricWiki.org
Auto rating for songs. Rating for albums, artists and genres automatically calculated from rating of songs.
Easy collection browsing. Just double click on genre to view all artist in this genre.
Smart playlists (custom SQL requests)
Support for AlbumArt as separate file on disk. Art can be assinged to genre and atrist too.
Many supported music formats (see engines section).
DND (drag-and-drop) support to collec music and append playlists.
Support for many play lists at one time. Play lists may be played in a certain configurable order, or browsed through like the main music library.
Tag editing capability. Buildin tag converter QTagConvert
Save/Load play lists to/from XSPF and M3U.
Collect playlist files into Library. Supported XSPF, M3U, ASX/ASP and CUE files.
Installer for Windows.
Clean and fast database backend using SQLite 3.
Configurable user interface.

Last edited by agapito (2010-03-22 06:38:10)

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