Dotan Cohen wrote:
On 23/10/06, Arnau Bria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:08:08 -0400
Dave V wrote:
> Hello,
Hi,
> I just read on the gentoo-dev list that xmms is about to be removed,
> but it's probably the only sound player that I've used. Could someone
> recommend a good alternative. I'm rather surprised that no one wanted
> to maintain the packages.
you should, not should, you MUST use Amarok :-)
Cheers!
I second that. My search for the ultimate music player has stopped
with Amarok. Absolutely brilliant. Name a feature- lyrics? wikipedia
integration? It's got it.
Dotan Cohen
http://rorot.com
http://what-is-what.com/what_is/linux.html
Hi, I'm new to the list but have been lurking for a while... so forgive
the slightly long post (bits of 'background' included to put things in
context)
I tried to get on with Amarok - I tried on my Ubuntu install before I
discovered Gentoo... thought I'd be bound to get it working with Gentoo
but couldn't... and tried Rhythmbox in desperation to have something
play music.
From what I've seen of Amarok, I'd love it, but I every time I've
installed it I've run into the same problems:
All our music (about 80 Gb, I think, mainly (but not all) OGG files) is
stored on a server, accessed on a mounted Samba share. The share would
mount correctly - and I tried mounting it with a variety of permissions
set - but I couldn't get Amarok to 'read' the music collection
successfully. I read various man/wiki/help pages which were supposed to
get it working but I couldn't - and when Amarok bombed out it would take
the system with it - things would lock up and I ended up have to reboot
(!) and/or have major problems getting sound to work at all (it seemed
to come and go, almost without reason).
I'm a relative newbie with linux and have only had my gentoo install up
and running for about a month now... but I have managed to get most
other things sorted by *lots* of reading/Googling. I started off with
kde, removed that (despite really giving KDE a really good go, I still
wanted to go back to my Gnome comfort zone!) and installed gnome-light,
unmasked the ~x86 packages that gnome-light pulled in and upgraded
them... and sound works at last. And Rhythmbox works - but I don't like
it (never have). I had xmms on my Ubuntu install... and had emerged it
(now unmerged) to use with Gentoo... and would love to have a simple,
working Amarok... but I haven't got my bravery together to embark on
trying again!
I can't help thinking the problem lies with my (lack of) understanding
of samba - our Squeezebox serves up the music from the samba share
beautifully - so I'm not sure what I'm getting wrong in how I mount the
share (mounting exactly the same way is fine for Rhythmbox) for Amarok
to read. Maybe I'll have another go one day soon! If anyone has any
hot tips or pointers that might help, I'd be grateful - I think I'll
tear all my hair out if I try to emerge it again and end up with big
problems with my system (I so want to avoid a problem that I'll be doing
a full system backup before I have a go).
I wouldn't vote for rhythmbox. I might try audacious instead. But I'd
really like a working amarok!
Sarah
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