A good audio player

therealtombaker · 2008-01-12 00:55:29

I have tried Totem, VLC, and Mplayer and do not really care for any of those programs for playing audio. I am looking for something like Foobar, that will play a lot of different types of audio well. I am not too concerned with any visuals or the ability to play videos. Does anyone have any ideas fo ra program like Foobar that will work for Arch Linux?

Partition · 2008-01-12 00:58:33

Mesk
http://mesk.nicfit.net/

therealtombaker · 2008-01-12 01:01:30

That looks like the kind of thing that I am looking for. My computer skills are fairly limited. Is there a pacman for that?

therealtombaker · 2008-01-12 01:03:24

Actually, looking closer it does not appear that mesk supports flac. Most of the music that I have is flac.

Partition · 2008-01-12 01:03:50

It`s only in unsupported for now.
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?d … =1&ID=5801
EDIT:

Actually, looking closer it does not appear that mesk supports flac. Most of the music that I have is flac.

So.. Maybe audacious?

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therealtombaker · 2008-01-12 01:06:06

Thanks, but I am not computer savvy enough to be able to install it.

therealtombaker · 2008-01-12 01:13:53

Partition wrote:

It`s only in unsupported for now.
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?d … =1&ID=5801
EDIT:
Actually, looking closer it does not appear that mesk supports flac. Most of the music that I have is flac.
So.. Maybe audacious?

I'll give it a shot. Thanks.

therealtombaker · 2008-01-12 01:19:20

I have installed audacious and the plugins and it seems to work fine. Thanks for your help.

peets · 2008-01-12 01:30:45

I've heard a lot of people declare their love for Amarok. I use mpd, but it requires you to read and edit a text configuration file. Whatever works for you!

Matt_D · 2008-01-12 02:55:38

I love Amarok:) I run in under Gnome (it's a KDE app) with no problems, plays most audio formats (but no shn support), and has a few nice bells & whistles. I tried many different players searching for the foobar of the linux world, and amarok is the best choice for me.

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skottish · 2008-01-12 03:00:31

Maybe take a look at Exaile also.

schivmeister · 2008-01-12 13:13:29

Amarok doesn't play some 16 and 24-bit Microsoft WAVs, and also MIDI. MPlayer plays both well. Also, Amarok is way soft with ALSA. Wait, I think ALSA itself is just too soft. Someone please enlighten me if otherwise. Nevertheless, I use Amarok.

bionnaki · 2008-01-12 20:01:37

pacman -S exaile

safran · 2008-01-12 20:40:22

i also stick to amarok.. it just looks so good

synthead · 2008-01-12 21:34:23

I'm all about MPD and Sonata. In fact, not only do I use it at home, but I setup an MPD client/server in our retail store. It sits under our hi-fi stuff and plays internet streams, controlled via Sonata on any of the workstations in the office area. And not only that, but I have MPD on a cron job, so it starts playing when the store opens and stops playing 5 minutes 'till closing.

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Borat · 2008-01-13 00:54:24

it is ALL ABOUT MPD + SONATA!

bionnaki · 2008-01-13 02:03:53

I highly recommend moc for CLI

learntheblues · 2008-01-13 02:40:29

I installed moc It's very nice. I like it keeps playing your music even when you restart X, very nice when your configuring stuff. Having music or a podcast playing in the background keeps me calm. I like Amarok because it looks nice, but now I've tried moc i think i will use that most.

bionnaki · 2008-01-13 03:55:24

be sure to check out the website for themes/scripts. and read this for tips:

http://polishlinux.org/apps/cli/moc-con … for-linux/
http://polishlinux.org/apps/cli/moc-aud … ed-tricks/

I run moc along with rtorrent, irssi, and raggle within screen. works great.

Daso · 2008-01-13 10:08:17

I use http://decibel.silent-blade.org/. It's very stable and easy to use. By default the browser is directory/file-based but there's a plugin for tag-based browsing of your music.

LinuxPatsku · 2008-01-13 10:17:57

I prefer too mpd + Sonata, it's so simply to use.

andre.ramaciotti · 2008-01-13 12:22:32

Mesk is gstreamer based, so if you run:

pacman -S gstreamer0.10-plugins

you'll be able to play mp3, wma, flac, ogg, wav, m4a, and lots of other stuff.

schivmeister · 2008-01-13 19:08:57

Why haven't I mentioned Aqualung? It's the default music player whenever JACK is running, and it's been so transparent that I almost always forget it's an amazing music player where audio quality is everything

finferflu · 2008-01-13 20:02:02

schivmeister wrote:

it's an amazing music player where audio quality is everything

What do you mean? What's the difference between Aqualung and MPD + client? I'm quite interested in audio quality.

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peart · 2008-01-13 21:17:11

I'm not an MPD user, therefore not a guru, but it seems to me that MPD does not offer anyway to modify/equalize the output. I've never seen an MPD client with an equalizer.

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