Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:41:50 -0500 From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommendation Message-ID: <4B6BA18E.40401@telenix.org> In-Reply-To: <20100203203736.GE1920@comcast.net> References: <4B67A778.7040001@telenix.org> <87vdefgtbx.fsf@kobe.laptop> <20100202231840.GB1920@comcast.net> <87k4uvgp5o.fsf@kobe.laptop> <20100203064734.GC1920@comcast.net> <4B69CE8A.1050300@telenix.org> <20100203203736.GE1920@comcast.net>
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Charlie Kester wrote: > On Wed 03 Feb 2010 at 11:29:14 PST Chuck Robey wrote: >> >> I asked for all opinions, but I need to answer here before my thread gets >> hijacked. I DON'T WANT GUI-less operation, I don't want random >> playback. I >> really do appreciate your response, but what I'm after is the best >> possible mp3 >> player GUI for managing the creation and manipulation of playlist >> driven playback. >> >> The only possible reason I have for replying here is to avoid getting >> all >> thouse responses from folks who don't like GUIs. Hell, I'm usually in >> that >> camp, but not this time. The suggestion I got for musicpd is a player >> with lots >> of hooks into GUIs (according to the email) but my playback already works >> excellently, what I'm after is the GUI, not the server. >> >> I've had some great suggestions so far. I think I'll go try amarok >> first, and maybe rhythmbox next. You folks are REALLY helpful, >> thanks!! > > Sorry, I didn't mean to hijack your thread! > Amarok is very popular and is a good choice, despite what someone said > about the latest version having a case of featuritis. The older 1.4 > version from ports is quite good. A little heavier in resource usage > than rhythmbox or exaile, but it's a solid implementation with no > missing features. > It handles my favorite podcasts correctly too, so there's no need to > pair it with PenguinTV. And it includes an equalizer, something I've > sorely missed in Rhythmbox and Exaile. > I had some m3u playlists with bad path info for some of the tracks. Wih > amarok, I was able to drag the track from my "Collection" and drop it in > the imported playlist. The m3u file was automatically updated with the > correct info. Now that's cool! Charlie, I have my audio playing by using artsd, using speakers which connect directly to my PC via optical (I don't use direct wired connections, only optical or spdif). I can't seem to get any audio out of audacious, so I looked into the preferences, and couldn't see any option to connect via artsd. OK, I'm willing to change here if I must (not anxious, because artsd has so far connected perfectly to everything else) but what driver would you recommend? Jack? Or maybe esound? I looked over jack, and was a little surprised to find not one word in that port referring to how to set up rc.conf to autostart it, couldn't even find something in /usr/local/etc/rc.d for it. How's jack start up? I haven't looked at esound yet. I've got a X11 problem too, but I figured that was outside the stuff you've been helping me on, so I asked that on another list. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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