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And wait Is winamp available in linux without Wine ?

No. In fact, Winamp is a dead project.

However, Winamp skins work with XMMS.

Always install xmms/audacious for the GUI, & often remove the full featured full screen monster that a lot of distros ship with.
On the command line, often just mpg123 run from mc or the shell.

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Originally Posted by fatmac (Post 5368708)

Thanks for reply !
You are right.Both Audacious and xmms are great.But my friend I did not get the "On the command line, often just mpg123 run from mc or the shell"part clearly.Can you please explain me in simple words.You know I am bit new to the command line.

VLC for me. Plays anything, can convert if needed, and it's faster than other media players.

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Originally Posted by killertux (Post 5368267)

Hello !
You are quite right.And Amarok is also a bit heavy for an music player.Although I have not tried it on Linux, but I have used it on Win****.And yes VLC rocks !

On Ubuntu, Amarok runs a mini app in the notifications area which gives you lightweight way of playing music from Amarok (it does this by default). You can then restore the full application which loads up the heavy GUI. My machine makes light work of the full app anyway even though the machine is 5 years old!

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Originally Posted by killertux (Post 5368780)

If you are not using a GUI, or if you use a terminal, you can play music with

Code:

mpg123 <filename>

& mc (midnight commander) is a file manager (that runs in command line mode also), with it you can highlight your music files & then have them played with mpg123. :)

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Originally Posted by fatmac (Post 5368918)

If you are not using a GUI, or if you use a terminal, you can play music with

Code:

mpg123 <filename>

& mc (midnight commander) is a file manager (that runs in command line mode also), with it you can highlight your music files & then have them played with mpg123. :)

Thanks !
That is helpful.:hattip:

I prefer to use mplayer through the command line for my music and sometimes videos clips downloaded with youtube-dl. Mplayer is lightweight and plays everything I throw at it even my old Windows .WMA files.

I've used Amarok, audacious, & various others in the past but recently to help hone my terminal skills I just use mplayer and its great.

VLC is IMO the best. That thing only lacks a "make /usr a toast" feature.

mp3blaster, mplayer or mocp. xmms if I want a gui.

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Code:

$ ./clir

[3;J



.................................................................................

              select a station and play            

                                                    

  [space] to pause, [q] to stop, [Ctrl]+[c] to quit 

 



 

    1  Addict Alternative    2  Audio Ink      

    3  Addict Rock            4  The Buzz        

    5  Power_Rock            6  Schizophonic    

    7  80s radio              8  Rock-Radio      

    9  90s Radio            10  Radio Xenu      

    11  WFMU                  12  Rage Radio      

    13  KikiNovak Radio      14  AGX            

    15  Progressive          16  BadRok Radio    

    17  Classic Gator Rock    18  All Dixie Rock  

    19  AMPZ Adult            20  106 Radio      

 



 select a  number  from 1 to 20 then hit [Enter]



6

Warning unknown option stopxscreensaver at line 5

MPlayer2 2.0-728-g2c378c7-4+b1 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team

Playing http://sc15.shoutcaststreaming.us:8030/1/.

Resolving sc15.shoutcaststreaming.us for AF_INET6...

sc15.shoutcaststreaming.us

Resolving sc15.shoutcaststreaming.us for AF_INET...

Connecting to server sc15.shoutcaststreaming.us[23.29.71.154]: 8030...

Name  : Schizophonic Radio

Genre  : Hard Rock

Website: http://www.shoutcast.com

Public : yes

Bitrate: 128kbit/s

Cache size set to 320 KiB

Cache fill:  0.00 (0 bytes)  

ICY Info: StreamTitle='Whitesnake - Stormbringer';



Detected file format: Audio only

Selected audio codec: MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 layers I, II, III [mpg123]

AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/9.07 (ratio: 16000->176400)

AO: [alsa] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)

Video: no video

Starting playback...

A:  39.5 (39.5) of 0.0 (00.0)  3.7 45 

ICY Info: StreamTitle='Schizophonic Radio - No Sucky Parts';

A:  46.2 (46.1) of 0.0 (00.0)  3.7 45% 

ICY Info: StreamTitle='System of a Down - Aerials';

A: 121.4 (02:01.4) of 0.0 (00.0)  3.9% 45%  

ICY Info: StreamTitle='Green Day - Nice Guys Finish Last';

A: 453.0 (07:32.9) of 0.0 (00.0)  3.8% 46% 

ICY Info: StreamTitle='Slade - Cum On Feel The Noize';

A: 637.6 (10:37.6) of 0.0 (00.0)  3.8% 46% 

ICY Info: StreamTitle='Jason & The Scorchers - Last Time Around';

A:1007.6 (16:47.6) of 0.0 (00.0)  3.9% 45% 

ICY Info: StreamTitle='Kix - Wheels in Motion';

A:1186.3 (19:46.3) of 0.0 (00.0)  3.9% 45%

I've noticed the some of you have used the xmms player. I did as well. Do you remember or have you tried the gdancer plugin for xmms? If you're not sure what I'm talking about, the plugin uses images that dance to the beat of the music.

The real fun is when you create your own dancing figures using any graphics program. My dancing figures were simple by just using simple shapes for the body and making the background transparent.

This is an old plugin for xmms back in the early days of linux. It may still be archived somewhere on the net. I did find one site.

http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/se...y=xmms-gdancer