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Good LInux MP3 Players

  • 26-03-2005 2:06pm
    #1
    wes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,749 ✭✭✭✭


    Hey,

    Can anyone reccommend a good Linux mp3 player that isn't XMMS, i have used it XMMS for a while and want to know what alternatives there are out there.

    Thanks


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  • #2
    Fenster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,763 ✭✭✭Fenster


    You could always try Amarok for KDE, although I found it a bit of a hog.

    *shrug*

    There's many, many players to choose from. Looking at apt, I saw six on my first count.


  • #3
    nadir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,419 ✭✭✭nadir


    beep-media-player is an xmms rewrite in gtk2, its ok, if you like the whole winamp vibe,
    im diggin' mpd atm, install mpd and mpc, can play over networks and stuff
    there are loads, like mp3blaster etc.
    check this thread http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-202043.html


  • #4
    de8o
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78 ✭✭de8o


    I use Juk. The reason I used it was it's ability to search for media on you HD, making playlists easier. Quite a basic interface but a lot less hassle than XMMS.


  • #5
    Sarunas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 355 ✭✭Sarunas


    http://www.rhythmbox.org/


  • #6
    Fenster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,763 ✭✭✭Fenster


    To bump this thread back up, has anyone else had much experience with MP3 encoders for Linux? I've tried several, but I haven't encountered any who record MP3's to the quality I enjoy. They seem to either record to ogg with middling quality or to MP3 in low-quality. Right now I default to booting into Windows and using iTunes (no matter what you might say about Apple, iTunes is a very nice, free, music organiser) to import from disc.


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  • #7
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,184 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    cdparanoia + lame

    Theres probably a gui for that on Linux (grip) and there are on BeOS (flipside), but I do it at the CLI on both - not terribly hard, and the combination makes extremely high quality mp3's.


  • #8
    nadir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,419 ✭✭✭nadir


    Fenster wrote:
    To bump this thread back up, has anyone else had much experience with MP3 encoders for Linux? I've tried several, but I haven't encountered any who record MP3's to the quality I enjoy. They seem to either record to ogg with middling quality or to MP3 in low-quality. Right now I default to booting into Windows and using iTunes (no matter what you might say about Apple, iTunes is a very nice, free, music organiser) to import from disc.
    Dude
    oggenc rules, damn good quality, and lame as mentioned above should produce mp3's exactly the same quality as in windows.
    there are also lossless codecs available
    and stuff like lavc


  • #9
    scojones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭scojones


    mpg123 and xmms.


  • #10
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,732 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    I sometimes use Zinf when not using xmms. That beep version sounds nice, I assume it reads and displays unicode characters correcty?


  • #11
    Fenster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,763 ✭✭✭Fenster


    I really tried to like Zinf. Really. But the fact all the skins are bugged to hell (that I saw) and the fact I have to manually tell it to "loop all tracks" everytime I start up killed it for me. I went back to BMP and Rhapsody.


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  • #12
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,732 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Fenster wrote:
    I really tried to like Zinf. Really. But the fact all the skins are bugged to hell (that I saw) and the fact I have to manually tell it to "loop all tracks" everytime I start up killed it for me. I went back to BMP and Rhapsody.

    Yep, same here. I'd use it all the time if it were reliable and dockable.


  • #13
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,732 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    I installed beep and it looks nice and polished fonts-wise, but there seems to be very few options.
    Is there a way of using xmms plugins and skins (gotta have my xTunes skin :))?


  • #14
    Fenster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,763 ✭✭✭Fenster


    pickarooney wrote:
    I installed beep and it looks nice and polished fonts-wise, but there seems to be very few options.
    Is there a way of using xmms plugins and skins (gotta have my xTunes skin :))?

    One thing I absoutely love about BMP is that there's a status dock plugin which will let you minimize it to the dock.

    Then again, I'm one of those Fluxbox-using infidels who sneer at elaborate UIs and fancy menus. :p


  • #15
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,732 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    It was easy enough to use xmms skins. I just needed to unpack the tarballs, make the files all lowercase and move them to one directory, then make .zip files from them and move them to /usr/share/bmp/Skins. The fonts look a lot smoother than in XMMS, but unfortunately extended characters still display all messed up, which I don't really understand. Anyhoo, now to see about importing the XMMS visualisations and other audio plugins.

    I must have one last go at installing rhythmbox as well. I must have spent upwards of 4 hours trying to compile/install it before but to no avail.


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