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#1 2004-04-19 06:22:29

Marauder1
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From: Montreal, Canada
Registered: 2004-04-03
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What is the best cd player for XFCE4 ?

Hello just a question, i was wandering which
software is best for cd playing on XFCE4 ?
I tried apolos, but on long song title, the scroll
makes the window change size constantly....
I tried alsaplayer but cant read from any of
my cd's ( and i cant find any ways to change
the device its pointing ).

What else should i try ???

:shock:  :?:

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#2 2004-04-19 13:11:49

farphel
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Re: What is the best cd player for XFCE4 ?

xmms should do the trick.


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#3 2004-04-19 18:50:26

Marauder1
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Re: What is the best cd player for XFCE4 ?

I tried xmms , ok it works but i dont find it
very user friendly when playing cd's.
I managed to find the way to edit alsaplayer
config file which is hidden in my home directory.
Change to pointing cd device to  : /dev/cdroms/cdrom0
and voila !!! everything works great !!!
I have CDDA , playlist and a few scopes which are
pretty good .

Thanks.  big_smile  big_smile  big_smile

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#4 2004-04-20 00:14:24

matias
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Re: What is the best cd player for XFCE4 ?

farphel wrote:

xmms should do the trick.

there's another based on xmms (but with GTK2)... bmp (beep-media-player)
just do:
# pacman -S bmp
$ beep-media-player & (to execute)

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#5 2004-04-20 02:09:28

aCoder
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Re: What is the best cd player for XFCE4 ?

Beep's pretty buggy though, but at least it's moving along pretty quickly in its development, and maintains most compatibility with XMMS.  The only real advantage for me, really, is that it uses my fonts.  Ever since I decided to use really cool fonts, XMMS has bothered me.


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#6 2004-04-20 02:53:45

Marauder1
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From: Montreal, Canada
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Re: What is the best cd player for XFCE4 ?

Never heard of beep , but im willing to give it a try...

Thanks.

You know i'm a really open source guy  big_smile  big_smile  big_smile

By the way i really like arch.
It's getting my day to day distro.

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#7 2004-06-03 15:24:45

sarah31
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Re: What is the best cd player for XFCE4 ?

there is also cdcd and dcd. they are cli and run nicely in the background.


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#8 2004-06-03 15:40:12

zeppelin
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From: Athens, Greece
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Re: What is the best cd player for XFCE4 ?

pacman -S vlc.
does CD digital audio extraction and much more

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#9 2004-06-03 16:03:16

Dusty
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From: Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
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Re: What is the best cd player for XFCE4 ?

dcd is the best (kisa -- keep it simple, Americans :-D), but it doesn't have playlist support... I wrote a bash wrapper that adds persistent playlist support if anybody's interested.

Dusty

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#10 2004-06-03 23:32:55

Neje
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From: Netherlands
Registered: 2004-05-03
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Re: What is the best cd player for XFCE4 ?

Grip is also worth a look in my opinion if you don't mind having a couple of gnome libs on your system.

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#11 2004-06-04 18:38:29

Marauder1
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From: Montreal, Canada
Registered: 2004-04-03
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Re: What is the best cd player for XFCE4 ?

Just check in your home directory there is a
hidden alsaplayer config file. Edit the cdrom line
to the drive you want it to point, ex: /dev/cdrom/cdrom0
Save the file and thats it.

Hope i explained it correctly since i'm at work and cant tell
the true name of it.

Bye.

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