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robrene

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Registered: 2009-04-16

Posts: 168

Looking for a lightweight application to stream music

Hey all. Since a recent update, Audacious has stopped working. It can't start and tells me there is a segmentation fault. I've traced the error back to the skinned interface, because when I try to run it with the gtk interface, the player works well.

However, I thought I'd take this opportunity to look at some alternatives. I have a couple of .pls files laying around that have information in them about certain online radio streams. I'm looking for a nice lightweight app that can play these files. I was hoping someone could give me a good tip on what program would be suited for this.

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Frugi

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Registered: 2008-10-02

Posts: 9

Re: Looking for a lightweight application to stream music

Music On Console
http://moc.daper.net/

pacman -Si moc

Wintervenom

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Registered: 2008-08-20

Posts: 1,011

Re: Looking for a lightweight application to stream music

MPD would also be great for this.

arch0r

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From: From the Chron-o-John

Registered: 2008-05-13

Posts: 597

Re: Looking for a lightweight application to stream music

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

KingX

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From: CA

Registered: 2010-03-24

Posts: 324

Re: Looking for a lightweight application to stream music

I second the mpd suggestion. Its stable and light on resources also.

robrene

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Registered: 2009-04-16

Posts: 168

Re: Looking for a lightweight application to stream music

I'm now playing with MOC. It's different than what I'm used to, but so far I really like what I see. Clementine is far from anything I want to have, it is an entire library program. All I am looking for is a simple program that plays my web stream (as stated in the OP)

I've looked at MPD before, I'm planning on using it when I get my local music collection sorted. Right now all I'm listening to is online radio.

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moljac024

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-01-29

Posts: 2,676

Re: Looking for a lightweight application to stream music

moc and mpd are both great.
Just pick one and have fun

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syre

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2009-08-04

Posts: 100

Re: Looking for a lightweight application to stream music

like previously mentioned, mpd (mpc, ncmpcpp) is the bees knees