-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Harm Geerts wrote: > On Friday 27 October 2006 06:00, Walter Dnes wrote: >>>> f) it has no good alternative :-( >>> it has. amarok, alsaplayer, xine.... >> [m3000][root][~] emerge --ask alsaplayer >> >> These are the packages that would be merged, in order: >> >> Calculating dependencies >> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "alsaplayer". >> >> OK guys, where is alsaplayer hiding? >> >> xine ==> almost as bloated as Windows Media Player. I want a simple >> *AUDIO PLAYER* dammit, not some honking big "multi-media" package that >> takes forever to build. I've had problems building xine, and swear by >> mplayer. I'd sooner use mplayer than xine. >> >> amarok ==> Even worse than xine. It's a Windows Media Player wannabee >> bloated frontend that ends up launching xine. In addition to building >> xinelib, it also builds kde-base, ruby, and a bunch of other junk. > > Amarok is Microsofts wet dream. > Amarok has so much more to offer. > To qualify it as a wmp wannabee is just ignorant and only makes you look > bad... > > Anyway, like Daniel said, audacious is what you want.
Just adding my $0.02, here. I've tried both wmp and Amarok (among other free programs). Just my opinion, but wmp is a piece of crap - I've never used it - after I tried it, even on my windoze systems. OTOH, Amarok is a very good program (again my opinion), and it will likely only get better. Can you tell I chose Amarok to replace Xmms? Chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQFFQeJ4Ux1jS/ORyCsRCH21AJ9FYN5xj1GprPcbniatqLG84fBBoACdFajV mf/aFhUPkwF4SInEp0e8xMs= =ICci -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
