Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:34:42 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommendation Message-ID: <87vdefgtbx.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <4B67A778.7040001@telenix.org> (Chuck Robey's message of "Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:18:00 -0500") References: <4B67A778.7040001@telenix.org>
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On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:18:00 -0500, Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org> wrote: > I'm having a hard time trying to figure out what/where is the best > playlist driven audio player with a graphical UI ... there's too large > a selection (both audio and multimedia dirs) for any reasonable manual > search, and since I'm after a good graphical UI for it, I couldn't > even construct any sort of automatic search I can think of, the > pkg-descr files aren't that reliable. My audio, which I do via spdif, > already works fine (using mplayer so far) so don't give me directions > how to *do* it, I'm just looking for a port name which offers me a > good interface for playlists, maybe even helping me build playlists > (because I've already loaded all my CDs to my disk). > > Thanks. I'm asking for opinions, so don't hesitate to offer me your > own favorites, I'll go look at every one suggested, and I'll really > appreciate it. Hi Chuck, Amarok is a featureful and nice program, offerring custom playlists, dynamic playlists, and a very good interface for organizing and -- most importantly -- *reorganizing* your collection based on IDv3 tags. It also sports last.fm support and lots of plugins/extensions, but there is _one_ catch: Amarok developers seem to haven fallen for the "second system" trap, and the latest versions are buggy, bloated monsters when compared to the original Amarok I loved. Exaile is a much lighter and nice player for Gnome fans. It doesn't have all the features of Amarok, but it has a large subset and those features that work seem to be mostly "ok". It doesn't have as many developers as Amarok though, and it seems to be lagging far behind. 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. There are, as you noticed, far too many players out there. I'm afraid there's no way out of the paradox of too many choices. You'll probably have to try a few players and decide for yourself which one suits your taste better :-/
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