Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 22:47:34 -0800 From: Charlie Kester <corky1951@comcast.net> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommendation Message-ID: <20100203064734.GC1920@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <87k4uvgp5o.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <4B67A778.7040001@telenix.org> <87vdefgtbx.fsf@kobe.laptop> <20100202231840.GB1920@comcast.net> <87k4uvgp5o.fsf@kobe.laptop>
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On Tue 02 Feb 2010 at 16:04:51 PST Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 15:18:41 -0800, Charlie Kester <corky1951@comcast.net> wrote: >>On Tue 02 Feb 2010 at 14:34:42 PST Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >>> I've been trying Rhythmbox too lately. It also recognizes IDv3 tags, >>> has playlist support, podcast download and archive support, last.fm >>> integration and online streaming radio support. Some bits of the UI >>> are, to put it mildly, "dumped down". This is a common problem of many >>> Gnome applications these days, it seems. I've only used it for about a >>> week or two now, so I can't really say if I _like_ it yet. >> >> I've been trying Exaile and Rhythmbox too. I think I prefer Rhythmbox, >> because it handles my .m3u playlists in the way I like. It immediately >> lists them in the sidebar under Playlists, and they persist there from >> session to session. > >Yes, that's a really _nice_ feature of Rhythmbox :-) > >When I am trying to 'enter the zone' and code for 3-4 hours without jumps >from one context to another, I often load a large m3u playlist to Rhythmbox >and let it repeat itself forever. Then I start writing and lose myself in >the process of creating things instead of going back and forth between my >terminal and the player in an effort to "keep the playlist filled with nice >music". > >The context switch from the work I am going to the player is always hurtful >for my concentration, so persistent playlists help me avoid it as much >as possible. OTOH, if I want continuous random playback of a playlist without the overhead of a graphical music manager, I go with mpg123 -C -Z -@ playlist.m3u in a terminal window. To make it easier to launch this by clicking the m3u file in a file manager like Thunar, I have a desktop settings file for it. ~/.local/share/applications/mpg123-random-usercreated.desktop: [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Type=Application Terminal=true Name=mpg123-random Exec=mpg123 -C -Z -@ %F MimeType=audio/mpeg Then either I associate this with the .m3u file type in the usual way, or I leave .m3u associated with something else and use "Open with other Application" to select mpg123-random. When I'm deeply immersed in my work, I don't need to see the album cover and other info the graphical music managers show me about the currently playing song. mpg123 gives more than enough such info, but I almost never look at it. (The only reason I run it in a terminal window is to make it easy to shutdown and to be able to skip past a song I've decided I no longer like -- hence the use of the -C option.)
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