Music library growing too large...

dmz · 2008-09-19 17:27:25

Daenyth wrote:

wine foobar2000.exe

Posts like this shouldn't be tolerated. It's like those puppys migrating to linux and first thing they ask is "How can i run MSN Messenger in Linux". They just dont seem to understand that there's a lot of alternatives to windows software, and in most cases, the alternatives is way better then the "native" ones.
There's no sense in running things like an simple music player with wine. Come on people. Things like this really makes me sad.

luciferin · 2008-09-19 18:30:25

GogglesGuy wrote:

luciferin wrote:
dmz wrote:
http://www.last.fm/user/betbot
And to derail this thread a little bit: does anybody know of a linux music player that doesn't use a database? Just adds files from your directories ala Foobar?
Why would that matter? It's not something you would notice how a program stores its data...

Two reasons:
1) Personal preference. My music is all organised into folders already, any database that is made of it is redundant and confusing. They way I play back the speed gain from it unimportant.
2) I have two music folders, one is lossless CD rips and the other is all Vorbis/MP3 for my portable, ampache and downloads. They have a lot of duplicates that make a mess in any program that tries to sort them.

But it's not that big of a deal. I've managed for this long.

Daenyth · 2008-09-19 19:30:34

dmz wrote:

Daenyth wrote:
wine foobar2000.exe
Posts like this shouldn't be tolerated. It's like those puppys migrating to linux and first thing they ask is "How can i run MSN Messenger in Linux". They just dont seem to understand that there's a lot of alternatives to windows software, and in most cases, the alternatives is way better then the "native" ones.
There's no sense in running things like an simple music player with wine. Come on people. Things like this really makes me sad.

I have a wonderful business selling brand new sarcasm detectors! As your current one seems to be broken, would you be interested in buying one?

dmz · 2008-09-19 20:48:12

Daenyth wrote:

dmz wrote:
Daenyth wrote:
wine foobar2000.exe
Posts like this shouldn't be tolerated. It's like those puppys migrating to linux and first thing they ask is "How can i run MSN Messenger in Linux". They just dont seem to understand that there's a lot of alternatives to windows software, and in most cases, the alternatives is way better then the "native" ones.
There's no sense in running things like an simple music player with wine. Come on people. Things like this really makes me sad.
I have a wonderful business selling brand new sarcasm detectors! As your current one seems to be broken, would you be interested in buying one?

haha, yeah, sure. I really hoped that it was sarcasm, but I wasn't sure. I've been attacked all day by ubuntu newbies that wants to run MSN Messenger native in linux, so I guess I could blame them. I'm sorry.

Renan Birck · 2008-09-20 17:16:52

I use Amarok, but have been trying mpd. Too bad that Sonata, here, seems to leak a lot of memory (it uses 100MB+ after a few hours, while Amarok uses ~70MB and stays on this for hours).

luciferin wrote:

And to derail this thread a little bit: does anybody know of a linux music player that doesn't use a database? Just adds files from your directories ala Foobar?

I think XMMS or Audacious would fit your needs nicely.

Rasi · 2008-09-26 12:27:08

dmz wrote:

Daenyth wrote:
wine foobar2000.exe
Posts like this shouldn't be tolerated. It's like those puppys migrating to linux and first thing they ask is "How can i run MSN Messenger in Linux". They just dont seem to understand that there's a lot of alternatives to windows software, and in most cases, the alternatives is way better then the "native" ones.
There's no sense in running things like an simple music player with wine. Come on people. Things like this really makes me sad.

While I agree and use linux apps exclusively i still run foobar2000 from time to time.. Sorry to say, but there is nothing in linux that can keep up with what foobar offers. MPD does most of the playback part (tho it cant handle cue files), but foobar's power comes from its unlimited flexibility by using a simple and small scripting language which is integrated in UI, tagger, renamer, everwhere... Also it allows you to sort your music the way you want. You like database based players? fine.. foobar does it. You like to play files by directory structure? no problem, foobar does it.

The only player that roughly shares this ideals is Quodlibet, but compared to foobar2000 its a ressource hog and slow.

But yea.. for simply playing music mpd and the like are great alternatives.

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