lightweight qt music player?

anti-destin · 2010-01-11 16:12:46

i'm looking for a simple, fast, lightweight qt music player, basically something like foobar2000. i've tried qmmp, but it scans my music directory on startup and takes an exceedingly long time to load. at the moment, i'm using juk, but it's buggy (slow startup, custom shortcuts don't work, etc.) and development seems to have halted.

of course, if there are no good options, i suppose i could go with a console-based player like moc or cmus. one question: is it possible to create a shortcut to load a player like moc or cmus?

thanks!

Dheart · 2010-01-11 18:54:26

When I migrated from win 4 years ago the thing I missed the most was foobar2000. Unfortunately the only way to use foobar under linux is via wine (heard that recent versions did miracles with it, perfect sound quality etc.)
I've settled with mpd + sonata. It's not that much of a feature rich but it gives you basic music player (really lightweight) easily managed playlists and lyrics + cover art fetcher, even a tag edtior.

EDIT:
Whoops didn't see the qt requirement.
You could chose another mpd frontend and also the mocp shortcut is easy to create. Regardless of the DE you're using just create new shortcut and check the "run in terminal" checkbox.

Last edited by Dheart (2010-01-11 18:58:21)

teh · 2010-01-11 18:58:42

There's some clients QT based for mpd: http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Clients

And minirok: http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=65683

jdarnold · 2010-01-11 19:13:48

Some ligh(er)tweight music players to take a look at:

guayadeque - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26682
Goggles Music Manager - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26744

Mikko777 · 2010-01-11 19:21:39

Oh how i'd like to see foobar ported to QT

but there seems to be lots and lots of players tho (its _too_ easy to code music players with phonon and qt)

http://qt-apps.org/index.php?xcontentmode=4220

anti-destin · 2010-01-12 04:35:34

Dheart wrote:

When I migrated from win 4 years ago the thing I missed the most was foobar2000. Unfortunately the only way to use foobar under linux is via wine (heard that recent versions did miracles with it, perfect sound quality etc.)
I've settled with mpd + sonata. It's not that much of a feature rich but it gives you basic music player (really lightweight) easily managed playlists and lyrics + cover art fetcher, even a tag edtior.

actually, i used foobar2000 in wine for a while, but these days i'd rather use native linux applications.

EDIT:
Whoops didn't see the qt requirement.
You could chose another mpd frontend and also the mocp shortcut is easy to create. Regardless of the DE you're using just create new shortcut and check the "run in terminal" checkbox.

awesome, just what i wanted to know.

i thought about mpd. i had some trouble getting it to work before, but i may take another look.

teh wrote:

And minirok: http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=65683

i forgot to mention that i had already tried minirok, but it wasn't quite what i wanted.

jdarnold wrote:

Some ligh(er)tweight music players to take a look at:
guayadeque - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26682
Goggles Music Manager - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26744

thanks. though they're not qt, i'll check those out.

Mikko777 wrote:

Oh how i'd like to see foobar ported to QT
but there seems to be lots and lots of players tho (its _too_ easy to code music players with phonon and qt)
http://qt-apps.org/index.php?xcontentmode=4220

there are a lot of different players, but many of them don't seem mature.

edit: i actually just tried qmmp again and so far, it seems perfect for my needs. loads quickly, light, and simple.

Last edited by anti-destin (2010-01-12 04:36:28)

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#1 2010-01-11 16:12:46

lightweight qt music player?

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