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Whats your favorite media player?

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#16 Post by laserbeak43 »

holy crap i gotta download 110 megs of files. amarok better be good!!!

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#17 Post by ghostdawg »

xmms. I also like juk but don't have it installed.
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#18 Post by e1even1 »

i was a real reealplayer fan, from forever til etch where it seems to be borked on my system and i haven't had time to fix it.

so i started using KMPlayer and i'm sure glad i did. it opens all of my realplayer .pls playlists and comes with bookmark radio streams from all over. it uses xine, mplayer, or gstreamer backends.

i dont need realplayer anymore.

KMPlayer.

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#19 Post by thamarok »

For the record: The newest Winamp doesn't run under Wine. But it does run under CrossOver Pro 6.01, but even there it doesn't function properly..

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#20 Post by morax »

Since I rarely watch videos and listen mostly to music, I must say that XMMS is my favorite media player.

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#21 Post by Pobega »

thamarok wrote:For the record: The newest Winamp doesn't run under Wine. But it does run under CrossOver Pro 6.01, but even there it doesn't function properly..
Why would you bother trying to use a compatability layer to listen to music? Obviously we all miss WinAmp, but there really is no need to waste your computer's power just to use it over XMMS. But then again, we're all free to run our computers however we want.
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#22 Post by laserbeak43 »

Pobega wrote:
thamarok wrote:For the record: The newest Winamp doesn't run under Wine. But it does run under CrossOver Pro 6.01, but even there it doesn't function properly..
Why would you bother trying to use a compatability layer to listen to music? Obviously we all miss WinAmp, but there really is no need to waste your computer's power just to use it over XMMS. But then again, we're all free to run our computers however we want.
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#23 Post by thamarok »

Pobega wrote:Why would you bother trying to use a compatability layer to listen to music?
Tell me even one native Linux media player which features visualizations. But note, that with visualizations, I mean those like in Windows Media Player or Winamp, with lots of colors, etc.. Not fftscope! Also, Xine is the only media player for Linux which I know that features a colorful visualization, but obviously its "goom" visualization isn't enough for me; I want 10 different visualizations atleast!

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#24 Post by DeanLinkous »

tell me just ONE media player that makes coffee, not decaf mind you but real coffee
since coffee is required to enjoy music afterall

Does winamp have visualizations if so then I wonder if they would work with xmms since I know the skins work. But honestly I do not know why you want to use resources to show visualizations. Do you sit and actually watch the visulaizations while listening to music?

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#25 Post by <(DmC)> »

thamarok wrote:but obviously its "goom" visualization isn't enough for me; I want 10 different visualizations atleast!
just out of curiousity: what do you want them for? do you really sit down, listen to music and watch the pretty colours changing their shape on your screen?
don't get me wrong, it's neat if you like that, but i (for my part) have never found any thrill in pursueing these kind of activities.
maybe if we linked this to the forum-logo thread (http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=14095), we could use acid as a reason to be wanting visualizations :lol:
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#26 Post by diego1116 »

I think I found my new media library solution: MPD + Gmpc. I will keep using Audacious + Streamtuner combination though.

I've never tried MPD before because I didn't want any server/client stuff, but just ONE program to rule them all...

But MPD has some advantages. It scanned my library really fast, it is lightweight and you can close or restart X without affecting your playback.

MPD has some nice clients for both console and X.

My client of choice for now is Gmpc, because it has a nice interface, good plugins, takes up around 20Mb of memory and it's being actively developed.

Links:

http://www.musicpd.org/
http://sarine.nl/gmpc/
http://sarine.nl/gmpc-screenshots

Edit 1: just corrected spelling
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#27 Post by Pobega »

thamarok wrote:
Pobega wrote:Why would you bother trying to use a compatability layer to listen to music?
Tell me even one native Linux media player which features visualizations. But note, that with visualizations, I mean those like in Windows Media Player or Winamp, with lots of colors, etc.. Not fftscope! Also, Xine is the only media player for Linux which I know that features a colorful visualization, but obviously its "goom" visualization isn't enough for me; I want 10 different visualizations atleast!
Hm, I don't see the point in the visualizations, but if you need them to listen to music I get your point.
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#28 Post by land0 »

Raises hand in the air for Amarok

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#29 Post by Kerr »

Quod Libet

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#30 Post by Lavene »

thamarok wrote:Tell me even one native Linux media player which features visualizations.
Kaffeine

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#31 Post by Kerr »

Lavene wrote:
thamarok wrote:Tell me even one native Linux media player which features visualizations.
Kaffeine
Isn't that just a KDE-Front for Xine?

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#32 Post by tribalero »

Audacious 8)
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#33 Post by pdean1 »

I mostly use xmms. I havent installed amorak. may have to take a look at that.

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#34 Post by tothaa »

My favourite media players are:
Totem
MPlayer
VLC

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#35 Post by thamarok »

Kerr wrote:
Lavene wrote:
thamarok wrote:Tell me even one native Linux media player which features visualizations.
Kaffeine
Isn't that just a KDE-Front for Xine?
Yup and I already said that "goom isn't enough for me".. I can and mostly do listen to music without watching pretty colors changing their shape, but sometimes when I want to really relax, I just need to look at moving pretty colors on the screen while hearing to orchestral music :)

And for that I have to reboot to Windows :(

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