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

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

2010-04-01 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 jtw...@ttlc.netwrote: [ ... ] 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,

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 global

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 jtw...@ttlc.netwrote: [ ... ] 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

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-list.m3u

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 add

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

2010-03-30 Thread ludovic coues
2010/3/30 Joe(theWordy)Philbrook jtw...@ttlc.net 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

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 might

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

2010-03-30 Thread Johannes Held
Ian-Xue Li da.mi.spi...@gmail.com: 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:

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 da.mi.spi...@gmail.com: 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

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 li...@baums-on-web.de wrote: Am Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:10:22 +0800 schrieb

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 Xavier Chantry
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de wrote: Am Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:10:22 +0800 schrieb Ian-Xue Li da.mi.spi...@gmail.com: 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

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 chantry.xav...@gmail.com: 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

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 cou...@gmail.com: 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

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 dar...@darose.net: 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.

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 Rosenstrauchdar...@darose.net: 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,

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 li...@baums-on-web.de wrote: Am Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:54:48 +0200 schrieb Xavier Chantry chantry.xav...@gmail.com: 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

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 chantry.xav...@gmail.com: 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 :

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 louipc@gmail.com: On Tue 30 Mar 2010 19:26 +0200, Heiko Baums wrote: schrieb Xavier Chantry chantry.xav...@gmail.com: Heh cmus is probably my preferred player now so I ought to defend it. Too complicated, seriously ? The

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 file every