recommend CLI player. [solved]

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Sedrik · Post by **Sedrik** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 9:06 pm

So I'm looking for a new music player.

I have tried mp3blaster (buggy playback) and cmus (it wasn't really what I wanted).

Anyone else has some good recomendation?

My demands are..

mp3 playback support (working one, not like mp3blasters)
playlist support (in the sense that I don't have to reload the whole list like cmus does)
random album play would be really nice (like itunes and juk has)

Other than that I'm quite open.

mihochan · Post by **mihochan** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 9:31 pm

Amarok is the gold standard.

Quodlibet has some nice features for selecting songs and managing MP3 tags.

Phenax · Post by **Phenax** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 9:32 pm

MPD + Client Of Choice

Sedrik · Post by **Sedrik** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 9:58 pm

mihochan wrote:Amarok is the gold standard.

Quodlibet has some nice features for selecting songs and managing MP3 tags.

Neither of these are CLI software (Command line interface).

Thanks anyway.

Majlo · Post by **Majlo** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 10:49 pm

Hi

I recommend moc player http://moc.daper.net/

It know all you want and more

ashtophet · Post by **ashtophet** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 11:21 pm

I'm currently using xmms2. Many of the powerful features it (will) provides are at development, but it's really usable ATM. It currently has nice playlist, collection, medialib querying possibilities (it wins where mpd lacks). CLI 'official' interface (xmms2) is being rewritting to something (still) better (korving).

From time to time I still switch back to mpd/mpc||ncmpc (or Quodlibet when on GUI).

As for the 'random album' playback feature (something like new cmus' lqueue, quodlibet's random album...):

- MPD: None of the clients I know has it, but there are two little pieces of C code that provide it: http://www.musicpd.org/forum/index.php?topic=1389.0

- xmms2: It will be doable with the great playlist-collection features management system it will provide. I've written a poor, hackish shell script to get it in the meanwhile: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Contribs

Sedrik · Post by **Sedrik** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 10:04 am

Majlo wrote:Hi

I recommend moc player http://moc.daper.net/

It know all you want and more

It was decent but sometimes really unresponsive.. goes like 5-6 seconds without it accepting my input..

Majlo · Post by **Majlo** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 10:34 am

Hm strange i can`t reproduce this problem.

My use flags :

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mario@server ~ $ emerge -pv moc

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] media-sound/moc-2.4.1  USE="alsa ffmpeg flac mad oss vorbis -curl -debug -libsamplerate -musepack -sndfile -speex" 0 kB 

Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB

Any errors in logs ? I recomend for you also moc player forums http://moc.daper.net/forum/5 .Developer is fine and he answer all questions.

Regards,
Mario

yngwin · Post by **yngwin** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 12:03 pm

mpd + ncmpc for cli (or qmpdclient for graphical environment)

Sedrik · Post by **Sedrik** » Sun Aug 12, 2007 8:04 pm

I recently discovered Ampache and it is the sweetest thing I have seen in ages.

Now since I don't run any webserver on my computer it would be nice if I could have the same functionality as Ampache embedded in a CLI application (I like CLI, using wmii and GUI's tends to struggle sometimes).

Anyone that knows if such a CLI exists?

Sedrik · Post by **Sedrik** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 8:03 am

Found a nice mp3player in this lovely thread http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-43 ... -vifm.html

Thanks all, happy hunting. =)