Best Audio Player in Linux?

By MatthewK
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Alfonz

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I use XMMS because:

a) I'm familiar with Winamp

b) It plays music, and that's it (by default)

c) I have all my music in 1 playlist, and just random play. Nothing special.

It provides me with everything I need.

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Best part about XMMS is it uses winamp skins, as easy as drag'n'drop zip files.

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Alex Shenoy

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Best part about XMMS is it uses winamp skins, as easy as drag'n'drop zip files.

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The problem with XMMS is there is really no good media library. That is the one winamp function I can't live without. I could always write one, but work seems more important. Plus, I have to reinstall gentoo as a result of my recent problems. Oh well, I might try Fedora Core 4 or Ubuntu, but I love Gentoo. We'll see.

--Alex

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jack_canada

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This might sound weird, but amarok crashes the system EVERYTIME when I try to add this certain mp3 file to my library, and when it tell amarok to play that file, it just closes itself. BMP, XMMS and rhythmbox all can play that file, but amarok can't, anyone know what the problem might be.

btw, is there media library function in beep-media-player? Can you search playlist in xmms and bmp?

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Alfonz

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The problem with XMMS is there is really no good media library. That is the one winamp function I can't live without. I could always write one, but work seems more important. Plus, I have to reinstall gentoo as a result of my recent problems. Oh well, I might try Fedora Core 4 or Ubuntu, but I love Gentoo. We'll see.

--Alex

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Nice another Gentoo fan, sweet. Anyway if you like Gentoo then try Ubuntu. They are very similar and if you are use to emerge in Gentoo then apt-get is ur friend in Ubuntu.

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Alex Shenoy

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Nice another Gentoo fan, sweet. Anyway if you like Gentoo then try Ubuntu. They are very similar and if you are use to emerge in Gentoo then apt-get is ur friend in Ubuntu.

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Yeah I did use Ubuntu. When I have the time I will reinstall gentoo. right now my problem is not being able to use debian repositories. Synaptic won't accept them. Oh well.

--Alex

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thechitowncubs

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once you go amarok you never go bok. ( :p back)

i dumped xmms beepmediaplayer once i got amarok running on ubuntu. wasnt simple but glad i did it. :D

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wasn't simple?

sudo apt-get install amarok amarok-engines

kabaam, done.

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kyro

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wasn't simple?

sudo apt-get install amarok amarok-engines

kabaam, done.

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then i had to download gstreamer plugins for all types.. then i had to do some command line thing which registerss all newly installed libs ... then i had to pee ... cause i was holding it for quite sometime .. then when i was back amarok finally played sound.

dude... that was really hard u know.. holding pee is not a joke.

:rofl:

edit.:- xinelib.. ya thats wht i did i think.... see it wasnt simple :D

BTW i have it running..

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bjornrun

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There is only one amaroK :)

I use Ubuntu, which do not have the latest beta, so this site shows how to quickly get amaroK 1.3 Beta 2 running: Installing amarok 1.3 Beta 2 quickly and easy.

Best features with amarok: Audioscrobbler support, automatic/dynamic playlists, look up correct mp3 tag on musicbrainz, automatic fetching picture & lyrics, and more.... Check it out!

First time got my music collection in order.

Btw, which distribution is best? Easy - Ubuntu! Check on my site how easy it is getting source to compile on it using the Debian utility auto-apt (you can choose which package to satisfy a requirment - not so easy on Gentoo). If anyone use RPM based distributions - shame on you! :no: I have seen admins using rpmfind to install a mix of RPMs with lot of lib version clashes and other problems. In the long run I found Debian most stable, and (K)Ubuntu the dream OS for desktop.

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rezza Veteran

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Anyone know of a gapless player for linux? I have a few bootlegs on my PC, they play perfectly in foobar2000, but every player i've tried in linux, is not gapless :(

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Ben

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The only gapless player I've found on linux is mpd.

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vassie

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You won't regret it (Y)

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I installed mpd mpc and gmpc, run sudo dpkg-reconfigure mpd to setup it up, started the service, added all my MP3's sudo ln -s $HOME/music /usr/share/mpd/music, run gmpc, added some music to the playlist, pressed play, but it skipped all the song's :(

mpd looks very good, so I will keep at it, however in the meantime I have found xmms-crossfade, you can use that to get rid of gaps :)

Ben

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rezza Veteran

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added all my MP3's sudo ln -s $HOME/music /usr/share/mpd/music, run gmpc, added some music to the playlist, pressed play, but it skipped all the song's :(

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Umm... you shouldn't set up the music dir like that (ie symlinking). Just edit the config file to tell it to look in /home/<user>/music instead of /usr/share/mpd/music.

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