Best Audio Player in Linux?

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^^^ Yeah. From my understanding, WINE only really works by translating the Win32-specific API calls. All the real binary instructions to the CPU to do the work is the same regardless of the OS you use. It is machine code.

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Why? It's not noticably slower through wine, nor does it take noticably more memory or cpu cycles than it does on windows.

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Could you please tell me how you did to get it to run fine?

Which output should I use, and what dll's should I change to native?

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Could you please tell me how you did to get it to run fine?

Which output should I use, and what dll's should I change to native?

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I got it to work just fine by installing wine ("emerge wine"), then running "wine /path/to/foobar_installer.exe", then I think I might have tweaked the wine config file to tell it to use alsa instead of OSS for output, and that was it. Didn't play around with native and builtin dll settings, it just worked perfectly out of the box. YMMV.

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mr_daemon

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I personally love JuK, because it indexes my 5.6gb of Mp3s stored on an smb mount to the file server, and checks for any new files added on startup.

I tried rythmbox, but it chocked while indexing my files.

So I deem JuK superior!

(For single song listening, I have always been and will always be an XMMS fanboy.)

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I'd say Amarok for looks...but I hate KDE therefore don;t even want it on my system.

I'd say Rythmbox....but everytime I try to load my 16GBs of music...it locks after loading the 4th album.

I'll have to try Juk i guess...as i'm in search of something too

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Aaron Veteran

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Who needs some bloated software package with album art and endless library listings of songs??  Afterall, you're listening to music, not looking at it.  XMMS will always be the best.  Plus, you can port over any Winamp classic skin you want.  (Y)

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Well, if you are referring to things like muine's album art feature, I find it very useful to visually scan the cover art than reading over the text - but that is me and everyone has their own needs.

Currently I am using rhythmbox most of the time since muine can't stream Neowin Radio (or can it?)

Also, anyone upgraded to the latest Rythmbox? What is up with th iPod button on the left hand side? Can it sync natively with iPods now?

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Seth

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Amarok is gorgeous; if only I could get it to work with GStreamer correctly. I think it's GStreamer's fault though.

@Armeck: I'm running .8.8, the latest version, and iPod support is still experimental. They want to have it totally done for 0.9; I can't wait :) I've just been mounting my iPod as an external HD and playing songs directly off of it for now.

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^^^  Yeah.  From my understanding, WINE only really works by translating the Win32-specific API calls.  All the real binary instructions to the CPU to do the work is the same regardless of the OS you use.  It is machine code.

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WINE - Wine Is No Emulator

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Julius Caro

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I'm trying Ragnarok now. I finally got it working :p (needed to change the sound thing in Kcontrol).

It looks cool but it's very slow on my computer. It always freezes when fading in/out songs. The media library is not a bad thing, many people find it useful.

I'm a mess with my music, I just know where the files are and add them all into a playlist. :p

I think I'll stick to Beep media player. XMMs is cool but its menus look ugly. Skins will work the same way in BMP, so no problem.

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