Looking for a decent music player

ammon · 2010-01-23 14:18:10

I know there is a lot of similar topics on forum, but no one did not respond to my question.
So far I have tried Exaile, Rhytmbox, Pragha, Decibel, Goggles, ... and so on.
They are all good players but have some critical flaws.
Exaile is maybe the best of them, but it is slow with large collections.
Pragha is fast and light but does not support pulse and multimedia keys wont work with it.
Decibel is next best thing after Exaile.
Goggles is fast, but ugly, media keys wont work, no pulse support and its GUI is confusing.
I have even tried mpd + GUI, but such option is just too complicated to setup for simple music player.

Okay, this is my personal opinion. What do you think?
I just need player with ease of use of Exaile but faster with large music collections.

GogglesGuy · 2010-01-23 15:37:46

I'd suggest you buy a faster computer with lots of memory and keep using exaile.

Regarding GMM:

1) media keys: we try to grab the usual XF86AudioPlay multimedia keys. If they don't work, it usually means they're already grabbed by some other application or desktop environment (I noticed this with gnome on a ubuntu installation). In case of the desktop environment, remove the default keybindings for those specific keys. Another case it might fail if the multimedia keys don't have the usual XF86Audio* keycode assigned to them.

2) For pulse support you need a pulseaudio plugin for xine. Either file a bugreport with Arch to enable the building of the plugin, or create your own custom xine package.

3) I'm always happy to hear suggestions to make the GUI less confusing.

RobbeR49 · 2010-01-23 15:42:33

There are other music players out there: gmusicbrowser, quod libet, songbird, muine, banshee, listen, cactus jukebox, aqualung, audacious, bmp... and that's without even getting into QT or terminal-based audio players.

And I wouldn't discount mpd so quickly, either. It is really not that complicated to set up.

For the record I use gmusicbrowser and like it.

userlander · 2010-01-23 15:45:57

I think mpd is simpler than most, actually. Basically just set your directory, making symlinks if necessary, and run. then use ncmpcpp front end, or sonata if you want a gui. pretty easy.

zowki · 2010-01-25 17:49:26

Well heres what I do. I don't use a music manager to manage my music. I do it myself by organizing the directory structure myself and just play music using moc.

Dheart · 2010-01-25 20:40:01

mpd + sonata is what you're looking for. Mpd is really easy to setup, just look at the wiki.

whacath · 2010-01-25 20:47:13

ammon wrote:

I have even tried mpd + GUI, but such option is just too complicated to setup for simple music player.

Well it is much easier to set up than arch linux. If you run mpd as user it gets even simplier,

n0dix · 2010-01-25 22:56:33

Hey guys!

I want to give a try mpd but i need to know if i can listen stream radio??

Dheart · 2010-01-26 06:40:16

MPD doesn't support radio streaming AFAIK, however the sonata gui frontend has such feature.

anonbeat · 2010-01-26 08:11:40

Try Guayadeque Music Player http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=86787

xd-0 · 2010-01-26 08:20:57

anonbeat wrote:

Try Guayadeque Music Player http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=86787

If one look at the ones he liked, I think Guayadeque has a far to bloated interface.

Rasi · 2010-01-26 10:00:05

Dheart wrote:

MPD doesn't support radio streaming AFAIK, however the sonata gui frontend has such feature.

Now that is plain wrong. mpd supports streams. asx, m3u, pls, mms://, lastfm://, they all are working

n0dix · 2010-01-26 21:30:30

Well , i will try it.

bananaoomarang · 2010-01-27 17:07:12

You could try amarok that works for me.

barzam · 2010-01-27 17:29:25

I use moc, http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Moc I think it's great and everything else!

syre · 2010-01-27 17:36:38

mpd + ncmpcpp if you love terminals, sonata if you love gui's like said above. Keep it simple and light!

Setup should be a breeze if you check the all-knowing archwiki

Last edited by syre (2010-01-27 17:37:52)

Berticus · 2010-01-27 17:50:19

barzam wrote:

I use moc, http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Moc I think it's great and everything else!

Except development is really slow... That's the only reason I ditched it. I would've liked it to scrobble songs, but onsongchange command is in the beta version. I also had some flickering issues with it when I searched for things.

I've thought about making my own cli music player. Currently I have a bash script that uses mplayer to play the song, and if the song finishes (doesn't allow early termination, quitting mplayer, or skipping) it scrobbles to last.fm.

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