Re: [SLUG] Music player opinion

2009-08-02 Thread Jeremy Visser
On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 10:34 +1000, david wrote: > How do you dump PulseAudio? In Ubuntu 8.10, the main thing to do is run gstreamer-properties, and select ALSA as the default output plugin instead of PulseAudio. In Ubuntu 9.04, the situation is stickier, as the default ALSA device ('default') is

Re: [SLUG] Music player opinion

2009-08-02 Thread Cibby Pulikkaseril
a split second, and I've got music without soaking up megabytes of my precious RAM! --- On Sun, 8/2/09, Matthew Hannigan wrote: > From: Matthew Hannigan > Subject: Re: [SLUG] Music player opinion > To: "Simon Rumble" > Cc: slug@slug.org.au > Received: Sunday, A

Re: [SLUG] Music player opinion

2009-08-02 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 10:22:19AM +1000, Simon Rumble wrote: > [ ... ] > Yep, I want something that mimics the old WinAmp. Dumb, just plays the > bloody music files I point it at. No bells, no whistles. If you want winamp-ish, then perhaps Zinf is for you (Zinf is not freeamp, freeamp is not w

Re: [SLUG] Music player opinion

2009-08-02 Thread Richard Heycock
Excerpts from Peter Rundle's message of Mon Aug 03 08:29:57 +1000 2009: > Hi All, > > I'm after a few opinions about a good music player for Linux (Ubuntu). I don't > like Rhythumbox and Amarok, they use a lot of CPU > and I really don't like their interface. The player is just a boring old > rec

Re: [SLUG] Music player opinion

2009-08-02 Thread peter
> "Peter" == Peter Rundle writes: Peter> Hi All, I'm after a few opinions about a good music player for Peter> Linux (Ubuntu). I don't like Rhythumbox and Amarok, they use a Peter> lot of CPU and I really don't like their interface. The player Peter> is just a boring old rectangular box and I

Re: [SLUG] Music player opinion

2009-08-02 Thread david
Jeremy Visser wrote: On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 08:29 +1000, Peter Rundle wrote: What ever happened to X-amp? It had really cool interface (like the nautilus shell) and had a simple play list display by filename. It used to run great on machines from five years ago and left plenty of CPU. I do

Re: [SLUG] Music player opinion

2009-08-02 Thread Jeremy Visser
On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 08:29 +1000, Peter Rundle wrote: > What ever happened to X-amp? It had really cool interface (like the > nautilus shell) and had a simple play list display by filename. It > used to run great on machines from five years ago and left plenty of > CPU. I don't know about its

Re: [SLUG] Music player opinion

2009-08-02 Thread Simon Rumble
2009/8/3 Peter Rundle > I'm after a few opinions about a good music player for Linux (Ubuntu). I > don't like Rhythumbox and Amarok, they use a lot of CPU and I really don't > like their interface. The player is just a boring old rectangular box and I > don't want to see half my music listed as "

[SLUG] Music player opinion

2009-08-02 Thread Peter Rundle
Hi All, I'm after a few opinions about a good music player for Linux (Ubuntu). I don't like Rhythumbox and Amarok, they use a lot of CPU and I really don't like their interface. The player is just a boring old rectangular box and I don't want to see half my music listed as "Track x unknown of u