Re: [arch-general] kaffeine [sigh] is there an alternative that:...

2010-04-06 Thread Guus Snijders
On 30-03-10 08:46, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: [...] Could somebody recommend another media player I could try that will let me create temporary music lists on the fly by typing the path to a parent dir containing multiple music directories??? One that understands keyboard commands for it's

Re: [arch-general] kaffeine [sigh] is there an alternative that:...

2010-03-31 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Mar 31, Guilherme M. Nogueira did say: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook > wrote: > > > [ ... ] > > 99% of the time what I want is to just play the whole list in random order > > with an easy hot key to skip any I decide, upon hearing, that I'm n

Re: [arch-general] kaffeine [sigh] is there an alternative that:...

2010-03-31 Thread Helgi Kristvin Sigurbjarnarson
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:05:30AM -0300, Guilherme M. Nogueira wrote: > That is exactly what I do, with a collection of about 10.000 songs. > I use MPD and ncmpcpp frontend, which is great. > with ncmpcpp you just go with TAB to change from playlist to browser and > vice-versa > and press SPACE to

Re: [arch-general] kaffeine [sigh] is there an alternative that:...

2010-03-31 Thread Linas
Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 01:12:15PM +0200, Linas wrote: >> >>> If your main problem is to create playlists for a recursive music tree, >>> I guess that >>> this would work with pretty much all players: >>> find /path/to/music > music-list.m3u >>> $PLAYER music-l

Re: [arch-general] kaffeine [sigh] is there an alternative that:...

2010-03-31 Thread Guilherme M. Nogueira
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > [ ... ] > 99% of the time what I want is to just play the whole list in random order > with an easy hot key to skip any I decide, upon hearing, that I'm not in > the > mood for. > That is exactly what I do, with a collection of abo

Re: [arch-general] kaffeine [sigh] is there an alternative that:...

2010-03-31 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Mar 30, Heiko Baums did say: > I don't know if it meets your requirements regarding the playlist, but > the best audio player I know is MOC (http://moc.daper.net). It has the > best sound quality of every player I know and is controlled by keyboard. > > You can set a "glo

Re: [arch-general] kaffeine [sigh] is there an alternative that:...

2010-03-30 Thread David C. Rankin
On 03/30/2010 01:46 AM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > Since kde4 I've learned that I really need to build a playlist by > repetitively using "File->Open URL-> NonRecursiveDir" until > I've added each and every subdir of "PathToMusicDirTree" one at a time. > Worse, I need to rebuild the playlist f

Re: [arch-general] kaffeine [sigh] is there an alternative that:...

2010-03-30 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:10:05 -0400 schrieb Loui Chang : > On Tue 30 Mar 2010 19:26 +0200, Heiko Baums wrote: > > schrieb Xavier Chantry : > > > > > Heh cmus is probably my preferred player now so I ought to defend > > > it. > > > > > > Too complicated, seriously ? The only command I ever need is

Re: [arch-general] kaffeine [sigh] is there an alternative that:...

2010-03-30 Thread Loui Chang
On Tue 30 Mar 2010 19:26 +0200, Heiko Baums wrote: > schrieb Xavier Chantry : > > > Heh cmus is probably my preferred player now so I ought to defend it. > > > > Too complicated, seriously ? The only command I ever need is the > > initial one to add my music directory : > > # add fi

Re: [arch-general] kaffeine [sigh] is there an alternative that:...

2010-03-30 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Heiko Baums wrote: > Am Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:54:48 +0200 > schrieb Xavier Chantry : > >> Heh cmus is probably my preferred player now so I ought to defend it. >> >> Too complicated, seriously ? The only command I ever need is the >> initial one to add my music direc

Re: [arch-general] kaffeine [sigh] is there an alternative that:...

2010-03-30 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 03/30/2010 01:39 PM, Heiko Baums wrote: Am Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:46:10 -0400 schrieb David Rosenstrauch: I still use audacious. It's definitely able to be highly keyboard drive. Not sure about the "add music dir recursively" functionality though. This works in audacious, too. Just select a

Re: [arch-general] kaffeine [sigh] is there an alternative that:...

2010-03-30 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:46:10 -0400 schrieb David Rosenstrauch : > I still use audacious. It's definitely able to be highly keyboard > drive. Not sure about the "add music dir recursively" functionality > though. This works in audacious, too. Just select a directory and click "Add". Audacious

Re: [arch-general] kaffeine [sigh] is there an alternative that:...

2010-03-30 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:03:03 +0200 schrieb ludovic coues : > people who doesn't like at all vi(m) will not like this kind of > shortcut too I suppose. You're wrong. Shortcuts are much different from those vi commands. For many simple editing tasks you need such complicated :commands in vi. In ot

Re: [arch-general] kaffeine [sigh] is there an alternative that:...

2010-03-30 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:54:48 +0200 schrieb Xavier Chantry : > Heh cmus is probably my preferred player now so I ought to defend it. > > Too complicated, seriously ? The only command I ever need is the > initial one to add my music directory : > # add files, short for ':add ~/music'

Re: [arch-general] kaffeine [sigh] is there an alternative that:...

2010-03-30 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 03/30/2010 02:46 AM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: Could somebody recommend another media player I could try that will let me create temporary music lists on the fly by typing the path to a parent dir containing multiple music directories??? One that understands keyboard commands for it's fun

Re: [arch-general] kaffeine [sigh] is there an alternative that:...

2010-03-30 Thread Philipp
Excerpts from Heiko Baums's message of 2010-03-30 17:05:09 +0200: > Am Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:10:22 +0800 > schrieb Ian-Xue Li : > > > As for MOC, I recommend cmus over MOC because it got more decoder over > > different types files. > > Well, just tried cmus. It's so complicated an unintuitive. If I

Re: [arch-general] kaffeine [sigh] is there an alternative that:...

2010-03-30 Thread ludovic coues
2010/3/30 Xavier Chantry > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Heiko Baums > wrote: > > Am Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:10:22 +0800 > > schrieb Ian-Xue Li : > > > >> As for MOC, I recommend cmus over MOC because it got more decoder over > >> different types files. > > > > Well, just tried cmus. It's so comp

Re: [arch-general] kaffeine [sigh] is there an alternative that:...

2010-03-30 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Heiko Baums wrote: > Am Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:10:22 +0800 > schrieb Ian-Xue Li : > >> As for MOC, I recommend cmus over MOC because it got more decoder over >> different types files. > > Well, just tried cmus. It's so complicated an unintuitive. If I need to > first

Re: [arch-general] kaffeine [sigh] is there an alternative that:...

2010-03-30 Thread Louis Brazeau
Personally, I use Goggle Music Manager. It's light weight and and it lets you select the base directory for all you music with a few keystrokes. -- Louis Brazeau Informaticien

Re: [arch-general] kaffeine [sigh] is there an alternative that:...

2010-03-30 Thread Joshua Sorensen
You might try sonata. I've got no idea how good it is because i don't have need for a media player on my laptop but feel free to look it over http://sonata.berlios.de/ Josh On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Heiko Baums wrote: > Am Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:10:22 +0800 > schrieb Ian-Xue Li : > > > As

Re: [arch-general] kaffeine [sigh] is there an alternative that:...

2010-03-30 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:10:22 +0800 schrieb Ian-Xue Li : > As for MOC, I recommend cmus over MOC because it got more decoder over > different types files. Well, just tried cmus. It's so complicated an unintuitive. If I need to first finish my degree to be able to use a program then there's somethi

Re: [arch-general] kaffeine [sigh] is there an alternative that:...

2010-03-30 Thread Johannes Held
Ian-Xue Li : > Overall, if you don't care any of the above, mpd with any suitable > player (I use ncmpcpp) is a must-try combination. Cool, I always thought ncmpc can't be made better. :-) Thanks for that hint! -- Gruß, Johannes http://hehejo.de signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [arch-general] kaffeine [sigh] is there an alternative that:...

2010-03-30 Thread Ian-Xue Li
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 01:12:15PM +0200, Linas wrote: > If your main problem is to create playlists for a recursive music tree, > I guess that > this would work with pretty much all players: > find /path/to/music > music-list.m3u > $PLAYER music-list.m3u One shortcoming of this way is that you mig

Re: [arch-general] kaffeine [sigh] is there an alternative that:...

2010-03-30 Thread Linas
If your main problem is to create playlists for a recursive music tree, I guess that this would work with pretty much all players: find /path/to/music > music-list.m3u $PLAYER music-list.m3u __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best

Re: [arch-general] kaffeine [sigh] is there an alternative that:...

2010-03-30 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > > Could somebody recommend another media player I could try that will let me > create temporary music lists on the fly by typing the path to a parent > dir containing multiple music directories??? > I don't know any music player tha

Re: [arch-general] kaffeine [sigh] is there an alternative that:...

2010-03-30 Thread ludovic coues
2010/3/30 Joe(theWordy)Philbrook > I could add and delete files to and from this directory tree and know that > the next "File->Open URL->PathToMusicDirTree" would result in kaffeine > playing all of them. At most all I needed to do was to set shuffle and > repeat options to enjoy my background m

Re: [arch-general] kaffeine [sigh] is there an alternative that:...

2010-03-30 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Tue, 30 Mar 2010 02:46:57 -0400 schrieb "Joe(theWordy)Philbrook" : > Could somebody recommend another media player I could try that will > let me create temporary music lists on the fly by typing the path to > a parent dir containing multiple music directories??? I don't know if it meets your

[arch-general] kaffeine [sigh] is there an alternative that:...

2010-03-29 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
I'm no longer a kde fan, I used to be until almost everything they changed for kde4 ticked me off... Over all I'm just as glad they did because otherwise I wouldn't have discovered E17 (or XFCE) which are currently my two main desktop environments. However, kde has some apps that I'm still addict