Re: [opensuse] Re: future of xmms
Sunny wrote: On 10/2/07, Jonathan Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The one and only reason for that, is, that with xmms I can use the keyboard to seek forward and backwards while the song is playing. So if I have to practice a small difficult section of a song I can just tap the left-arrow key and hear it again. I can't do that in Amarok, even in the little player window, which is disappointing. The first hit in google for xmms replacement is this one: http://gentoo-wiki.com/Xmms_replacement The conclusion is audacios - especially the author of the article says it can be navigated with the cursor keys (a little bit not satisfying for him, but ...) Cheers Another interesting project is qmmp http://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/index_en.html Audacious would be my choice, if it worked properly :p I have some serious issues with both 1.3.x and the latest 1.4 versions. 2 that bugs me the most: 1. When load all my music, and save a playlist, on the next startup of audacious, the playlist is lost (discarded) due to a parsing error in their playlist parser. They are working on that one. 2. The window of audacious is sticky on my system. I've tried several different window managers etc, but it does not help. Sticky in the sense, that when i move around the main window, then release the mouse button, the window still follows the cursor, for the same amount of time as the original move took. Best regards Sylvester -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Re: future of xmms
On Tue, 2007-02-10 at 18:26 -0400, Sergey Mkrtchyan wrote: Jonathan Arnold wrote: Jan Engelhardt wrote: Boy, there sure are a lot of media players for Linux. I use Amarok and Banshee. Has anyone ever done a big comparison of the various ones? Actually I've been using xmms from the very beginning of my using Linux(couple of years probably, started with 9.3), but now I've switched to Amarok, and I really find it very comfortable. It has global hotkeys stuff, which I find very useful, so you can control it without actually switching to it's window. It has couple of other features (cover manager, collections and context, etc) which I really like more and more... And it seems no way to set the usb-headset as your sound out device, only speakers. :( -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Re: future of xmms
What is the alternative to xmms? As my disk collapsed I was intending installing 10.3 asap; just wondering what else will be lost. Boy, there sure are a lot of media players for Linux. I use Amarok and Banshee. Has anyone ever done a big comparison of the various ones? Probably not recently - I also like kaffeine (kde front end to xine) I'm a musician and have used xmms for years for practice (I play along with various recordings). Crazy as it sounds, I actually use Amarox for media management (I like it, it's a cross between iTunes (a little too rigid) and xmms playlists (a little too loose). I then drag and drop the files I want to practice with into xmms. The one and only reason for that, is, that with xmms I can use the keyboard to seek forward and backwards while the song is playing. So if I have to practice a small difficult section of a song I can just tap the left-arrow key and hear it again. I can't do that in Amarok, even in the little player window, which is disappointing. However, this thread got me to looking for a replacement, and I've found KPlayer which fills that need for me. So I guess I just moved from xmms to KPlayer :-) -- -- System Administrator - Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com http://jwadmin.blogspot.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Re: future of xmms
On 10/2/07, Jonathan Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The one and only reason for that, is, that with xmms I can use the keyboard to seek forward and backwards while the song is playing. So if I have to practice a small difficult section of a song I can just tap the left-arrow key and hear it again. I can't do that in Amarok, even in the little player window, which is disappointing. The first hit in google for xmms replacement is this one: http://gentoo-wiki.com/Xmms_replacement The conclusion is audacios - especially the author of the article says it can be navigated with the cursor keys (a little bit not satisfying for him, but ...) Cheers -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny) Even the most advanced equipment in the hands of the ignorant is just a pile of scrap. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Re: future of xmms
Jonathan Wilson wrote: What is the alternative to xmms? As my disk collapsed I was intending installing 10.3 asap; just wondering what else will be lost. Boy, there sure are a lot of media players for Linux. I use Amarok and Banshee. Has anyone ever done a big comparison of the various ones? Probably not recently - I also like kaffeine (kde front end to xine) I'm a musician and have used xmms for years for practice (I play along with various recordings). Crazy as it sounds, I actually use Amarox for media management (I like it, it's a cross between iTunes (a little too rigid) and xmms playlists (a little too loose). I then drag and drop the files I want to practice with into xmms. The one and only reason for that, is, that with xmms I can use the keyboard to seek forward and backwards while the song is playing. So if I have to practice a small difficult section of a song I can just tap the left-arrow key and hear it again. I can't do that in Amarok, even in the little player window, which is disappointing. What version of Amarok are you using? The arrow keys move forward and backwards in a song for me... -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Linux Brain Dump - Linux Notes, HOWTOs and Tutorials: http://www.linuxbraindump.org Daemon Dancing in the Dark, an Open OS weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Re: future of xmms
Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Sep 27 2007 09:13, jpff wrote: What is the alternative to xmms? As my disk collapsed I was intending installing 10.3 asap; just wondering what else will be lost. packman still has xmms (well, at least in 10.2) -- and otherwise resort to mplayer ;-) Boy, there sure are a lot of media players for Linux. I use Amarok and Banshee. Has anyone ever done a big comparison of the various ones? -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Linux Brain Dump - Linux Notes, HOWTOs and Tutorials: http://www.linuxbraindump.org Daemon Dancing in the Dark, an Open OS weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Re: future of xmms
Jonathan Arnold wrote: Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Sep 27 2007 09:13, jpff wrote: What is the alternative to xmms? As my disk collapsed I was intending installing 10.3 asap; just wondering what else will be lost. packman still has xmms (well, at least in 10.2) -- and otherwise resort to mplayer ;-) Boy, there sure are a lot of media players for Linux. I use Amarok and Banshee. Has anyone ever done a big comparison of the various ones? Probably not recently - I also like kaffeine (kde front end to xine) Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
