Diecent, working music player

[Tshwala]

Hi all

Can anyone recomend a music player that is useable on AMD64 natively?
Amarok has a problem with gstream, Zinf just dies and puts multiple versions of the same track in the playlist. I suppose I could try noatun but I'm trying to avoid too much kde stuff.

[kcy29581]

Have you tried VLC? Works on AMD64 and it quite a lovely beast! Has a plugin for firefox/mozilla as well that works perfectly for me. Although I don't use AMD64 myself I have seen work on a AMD64.
[/url]http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-gentoo.html[url]
Read that for help on installation[/url]
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[My_World]

media-sound/beep-media-player
Size of downloaded files: 1,928 kB
Homepage: http://www.sosdg.org/~larne/w/BMP_Homepage
Description: Beep Media Player

Have a look at that, not too bad at all.
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[Tshwala]

Thanks all

*drool* music again

[dirk_salewski]

Hm, in my opinion You should do Yourself a favor and try mpd before deciding finally.

1) mpd is not small, it's tiny.
2) You can use different frontends
3) You can restart X while playing music - it keeps on playing
4) You can run a home entertainment box with mpd on it, connecting to it from Your friends laptop who just came over. It doesn't even need X.
5) Uses OSS or alsa natively if You want it to. No need for <insert soundbloatserver here>. I have it using the alsa hardwaremixer, so I can hear sounds from jabber or something simultaneously.
6) It has nice and easy playlists and support for ogg, mp3 and other arcane stuff (and the id3tags of those).
7) If You start it with Your bootscripts it's just there.
8) You can make it secure by restricting the access to 127.0.0.1
9) If You are using Gnome, XFCE4, KDE or WindowMaker You can use native frontends which dock into Your dockspace. Skipping Music and adjusting volume included.
10) If You are NOT using one of the big desktops You can use glurp and make it behave like a dockapp (in case You're fond of dockapps, that is).

I like it very much.

Greetings,

Dirk

[ziegs]

mpd is nice, especially if you spend a lot of time in a console with x not running.

muine is nice if you feel like installing all the mono junk from subversion (the ebuilds don't quite work for us amd64 users yet). its got the best organizational system i've come across yet. organizes by album isntead of by artist, which is neat cause it keeps those compilations togethor and doesn't send you running around looking for songs.

rhythmbox is alright if you like itunes. i don't really care much for itunes on my mac, i stick to audion. rhythmbox can do ipods though so thats a neat little feature. it plays music just as well as muine does (both use gstreamer).

i used to use juk in my KDE days, but those are long over. i suppose that one was good too.

beep is also good. haha so many players!

[dapsaille]

Heuuu .. i like xmms