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Russki
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 Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2002 1:37 pm Post subject: xmms looks ugly OR isn't easily readable |
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Split from Anyone emerge Zinf successfully?. - pjp
Yes, I used zinf for a few days. Gave it up in favor for xmms.
| kanuslupus wrote: | | I thought adding -arts would tell emerge to not use it. |
Adding -kde will tell emerge to not use arts, that's how it worked for me.
I didn't like the fact that zinf created it's own "My Music" folder in my home dir. After that zinf tried to scan my hard drive to find music and make a "nice" catalog. But it didn't work, the catalog was messed up.
This kind of things I don't need. So I installed xmms as always and it works fine!
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| Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2002 4:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Russki wrote: | | Yes, I used zinf for a few days. Gave it up in favor for xmms. |
I haven't been able to get xmms to not look like crap (readable = pixelated/ugly, not pixelated/ugly = not readable). Also, I can't get xmms to use my parent directory containing subdirs of music.
| Quote: | | Adding -kde will tell emerge to not use arts, that's how it worked for me. |
I have -kde in there. In fact, -kde was still in when I removed -arts *shrug* odd.
| Quote: | | I didn't like the fact that zinf created it's own "My Music" folder in my home dir. |
Yeah, this should be an option, I just rm it.
| Quote: | | After that zinf tried to scan my hard drive to find music and make a "nice" catalog. |
Hrm... worked fine for me. I pointed it to the main dir containing my music though.
| Quote: | | But it didn't work, the catalog was messed up. |
Not trying to convert you to Zinf, just curious... messed up how?
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Russki
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| Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2002 8:08 pm Post subject: |
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| kanuslupus wrote: | | haven't been able to get xmms to not look like crap (readable = pixelated/ugly, not pixelated/ugly = not readable). |
Wat screen resolution do you have? Really, xmms, zinf, doesn't make differents on 1280x1024 to me.
| Quote: | | Also, I can't get xmms to use my parent directory containing subdirs of music. |
No problem hier! I have main dir "My Music". There I've got subdirs with bands names, every subdir has another subdir with CD or LP names etc... I can choose one song or one CD or all "My Music".
Btw all my music is on different partition.
| Quote: | | I have -kde in there. In fact, -kde was still in when I removed -arts *shrug* odd. |
I am lost hier... I know wat works and worked for me. That's add
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After that zinf tried to scan my hard drive to find music and make a "nice" catalog.
Hrm... worked fine for me. I pointed it to the main dir containing my music though.
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But it didn't work, the catalog was messed up.
Not trying to convert you to Zinf, just curious... messed up how? |
That's wat I did! But, you know I am no saint. I've got allot of mp3's from internet, and all the mp3's tags are messed up. Zinf is reading this tags and as a result I've got tons of different directories with different names, different songs... A mess! That's actually how windoze media player works. All I want is to chose one directory that contains one album, and listen to it. I don't want all that fancy zinf order with different tracks and names... I found xmms perfect, and that's wat I am using now
Greetings
P.S I hate quotes, it's always wrong (just edited it 3 times)
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| Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2002 8:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Russki wrote: | | Wat screen resolution do you have? Really, xmms, zinf, doesn't make differents on 1280x1024 to me. |
1280x1024 as well. There is some button on xmms that when pressed 'enlarges' the GUI interface. When I do that, it is very pixelated. If I don't, everything is small enough to not be pleasant to read (for me). I haven't noticed any other pixelation issues.
| Quote: | No problem hier! I have main dir "My Music". There I've got subdirs with bands names, every subdir has another subdir with CD or LP names etc... I can choose one song or one CD or all "My Music".
Btw all my music is on different partition. |
Hrm... maybe I just didn't see the location to do that. I tried pointing to the main directory, but it wouldn't take it. I have a drive dedicated for music myself.
| Quote: | | Quote: | | I have -kde in there. In fact, -kde was still in when I removed -arts *shrug* odd. |
I am lost hier... I know wat works and worked for me. That's add |
I don't understand it either. Incidentally, this is what is keeping me from really understanding how USE works, but that is another thread.
| Quote: | | That's wat I did! But, you know I am no saint. I've got allot of mp3's from internet, and all the mp3's tags are messed up. Zinf is reading this tags and as a result I've got tons of different directories with different names, different songs... A mess! That's actually how windoze media player works. All I want is to chose one directory that contains one album, and listen to it. I don't want all that fancy zinf order with different tracks and names... I found xmms perfect, and that's wat I am using now |
Yeah, I have some that are a bit out of whack as well. Some day I'll fix them.
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Russki
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| Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2002 9:14 pm Post subject: |
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| kanuslupus wrote: | | Russki wrote: | | Wat screen resolution do you have? Really, xmms, zinf, doesn't make differents on 1280x1024 to me. |
1280x1024 as well. There is some button on xmms that when pressed 'enlarges' the GUI interface. When I do that, it is very pixelated. If I don't, everything is small enough to not be pleasant to read (for me). I haven't noticed any other pixelation issues.. |
I guiess thats's were skins play theirs rol. I use ultrafine-pw skin. It is fine to read and it looks good whith my gnome2/crux/metacity/beautiful and free/ desktop. I would post a screenshot, but I can't at the moment...
| Quote: | | Quote: | No problem hier! I have main dir "My Music". There I've got subdirs with bands names, every subdir has another subdir with CD or LP names etc... I can choose one song or one CD or all "My Music".
Btw all my music is on different partition. |
Hrm... maybe I just didn't see the location to do that. I tried pointing to the main directory, but it wouldn't take it. I have a drive dedicated for music myself. |
To choose a dir, press "file" on Playlist Editor (don't release) and go to DIR. That's should work.
| Quote: | | Quote: | | Quote: | | I have -kde in there. In fact, -kde was still in when I removed -arts *shrug* odd. |
I am lost hier... I know wat works and worked for me. That's add |
I don't understand it either. Incidentally, this is what is keeping me from really understanding how USE works, but that is another thread. |
I've been using gentoo sins april. I've build it (I think) 10-15 times.
I've always kept my "make.conf" to use the same USE flags. And wat I've noticed that every time there is a major update, the use flags have different working. Right now I use gnome, but in my USE flags I've got -gnome. It works fine!!!! In fact I've got less trubble to compile gnome like that. Odd. But you're right, that's different thread
| Quote: | | Quote: | | That's wat I did! But, you know I am no saint. I've got allot of mp3's from internet, and all the mp3's tags are messed up. Zinf is reading this tags and as a result I've got tons of different directories with different names, different songs... A mess! That's actually how windoze media player works. All I want is to chose one directory that contains one album, and listen to it. I don't want all that fancy zinf order with different tracks and names... I found xmms perfect, and that's wat I am using now |
Yeah, I have some that are a bit out of whack as well. Some day I'll fix them. |
Make sure to let the world know how  For me it means editing thousans mp3's... I find it to much...
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| Is it possibled to get xmms to have kde style menus instead of gtk? its the only app that i use frequently thats gtk. |
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