Searching for a music player like ...

detto · 2006-07-20 13:10:51

... this one http://www.sheepfriends.com/?page=billy … screenshot

Does someone of you know of a player (preferd gtk/gnome like) that just offers me a simple playlist view like in the screenshot where, if i begin to type on keyboard, a little window pops up with the search results from the things typed?

Its the player ive only and always used in windows 2 years ago
You press F4 (shortcut) and are presented with your in options selected music directory, shown in a tree view. So you can easily add whole artists or album or all (whole music dir).
Then youre left with your playlist window again and can just hear music, enqueue some files (they are gettin numbered in order you enqueue them) or begin to type "sun" and get a little popup with results of "sun" and can press enter to play the file or enqueue it (with a shortcut too).

Its just that simple, also it may sound complicated first
But i really hope you got the idea and understood me and my poor english

shamrok · 2006-07-20 13:23:26

Maybe this one -> http://spuriousinterrupt.org/projects/xfmedia#screenies

postlogic · 2006-07-20 13:54:22

I use xfmedia and really recommend it.

detto · 2006-07-20 15:20:52

Hey, thank you!
This one looks pretty promising

postlogic, as u use xfmedia: when u have it open like this http://spuriousinterrupt.org/images/xfm … .thumb.png and begint to type, does it jump to best search result or offer u a list of search results or s.th. like that?
Then this would be a very neat player imo, and finally one which ill rest on 8)

edit: tried already myself,.... and it does not work
searching in playlist for a specific song is like scrolling up and down 5 minutes with a big list :evil:

smoon · 2006-07-20 16:15:39

Personally I'm using Pygmy, a MPD client and I'm really satisfied with it. But there's also Muine which should fit your needs as well.

detto · 2006-07-20 17:04:16

hey smoon,
trying pygmy right now. looks awesome simple effective, but i just dont get how to search with it :> :oops:

pressing CTRL+F in playlist open the bar, ok. and i cantype in it, ok. but its just like he doesnt use the search function,... i just dont get anything of results, i just type and nothing :oops:
maybe i oversee s.th. here help me out plz! ahh!

Mr Green · 2006-07-20 17:09:27

xfmedia seems slow :cry:

pympd is good

gmpc

detto · 2006-07-20 17:16:58

yep, xfmedia also seems somewaht "not-so-smooth" to me :? dunno....

well, had a 2nd look at pygmy and pympd also looks really nice!
.... bu i think ill keep on using listen now, supports album covers and text search as well,... some features, well i cannot left out after using amarok with slackware year ago.

thx 4 ur tips and hints ladeis and gentlemen!

Snowman · 2006-07-20 17:50:40

You could also check out quodlibet. That's what I'm using.

djpharoah · 2006-07-20 17:52:08

To add to the others - xfmedia is very slow.

I tried it a while back with xfce from svn. Dont know if it has improved since then.

smoon · 2006-07-20 18:06:09

detto wrote:

hey smoon,
trying pygmy right now. looks awesome simple effective, but i just dont get how to search with it :> :oops:
pressing CTRL+F in playlist open the bar, ok. and i cantype in it, ok. but its just like he doesnt use the search function,... i just dont get anything of results, i just type and nothing :oops:
maybe i oversee s.th. here help me out plz! ahh!

Hmm, unfortunately this doesn't work for me either. But if you click on "Add..." the search function in the new window works quite well.

codemac · 2006-07-20 18:58:13

ncmpc-svn rox

Mr Green · 2006-07-20 19:16:09

codemac wrote:

ncmpc-svn rox

emmm thunar maybe

StormBlast · 2006-07-21 09:04:08

gmpc can looks similar:

FUBAR · 2006-07-21 10:48:22

I want that Britney Spears album!

Mr Green · 2006-07-21 11:35:51

StormBlast wrote:

gmpc can looks similar:

Man mine never looked like that ;-)

smoon · 2006-07-21 12:06:34

StormBlast wrote:

gmpc can looks similar:

gmpc is quite nice, but I find it a bit too difficult to change for example the contents of the playlist - at least compared to pygmy.

Romashka · 2006-07-21 13:11:31

Does somebody know if there any player for Linux that could look like @Max Tray Player (version 1.01a was freeware) or STP (SysTrayPlayer, now dead)?

smoon · 2006-07-21 13:25:25

Romashka wrote:

Does somebody know if there any player for Linux that could look like @Max TrayPlayer (version 1.01a was freeware) or STP (SysTrayPlayer, now dead)?

Zinf maybe? If you want something like the controls in the taskbar, there's playground for xmms, bmp and the like and Music Applet for some other players.

Romashka · 2006-07-21 13:42:42

smoon wrote:

Romashka wrote:
Does somebody know if there any player for Linux that could look like @Max TrayPlayer (version 1.01a was freeware) or STP (SysTrayPlayer, now dead)?
Zinf maybe? If you want something like the controls in the taskbar, there's playground for xmms, bmp and the like and Music Applet for some other players.

I know about Playground and Music Applet - they are not what I want.
I didn't know about Zinc - playlist manager looks good but all those non-rectangular themes etc. - is it fast?
Every detail on these screenshots make me loved in this GUI. STP is even simpler and doesn't use DirectX for playing files, thus eating much, much less memory. But both players are for Windoze. Apollo (by Heikki) and 1by1 - too. I want the same for Linux but didn't find yet. All players that I know about are not "tray players", they have only some addons or applets. But adding some buttons to panel is not what I want, because anyway I use global keyboard shortcuts.

I like xfmedia but it still misses many features that I'm found of in @max Tray Player and STP.

Mr Green · 2006-07-23 17:05:23

I'm curious on how use a filemanager to play/sort music ?

Thunar would be cool to use .... figure now I have more than 20 tracks lol need to make up a playlist

emm managing playlists can be a pain

Well for me anyway

Any tips?

mpie · 2006-07-23 18:11:22

if you have qt installed you can find no better player than boombox,
its in aur

has a nice database browser, it was written for people with large collections ( mine currently occupies a 20gb fat32 partition

Mr Green · 2006-07-23 18:46:49

looks good ;-)

detto · 2006-07-24 12:50:06

have to take a look at gmpc and boombox i think
thx for these tips!

right now i am using listen, which is kinda neat because it has a smiliar relative fast search function for specified artist (or artist & album). that makes finding and adding songs to queue/playlists much easier

Romashka · 2006-07-24 13:04:33

Boombox is not what I want but it is very good player for people like me - without bells and whistles, with good and simple cataloguing.

Hmm... maybe I should start writing simple tray player by myself? But I don't have experience in GTK nor Qt nor wxWidgets. So, I need to learn :-)

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