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I thought that is was possible to get real media files playing with mplayer?
I never tried, since I had access to Real for Linux, and it was ever so much less obnoxious than Real for Windows--it didn't try to call home to Seattle and didn't try to run hidden processes like its Windows big brother. It just sat there and played, which is what a player should do.
Real formats, in my experience, are the among most encumbered and most closely guarded of the common codecs.
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IT is written:
RealPlayer for Linux has been discontinued and is no longer supported. Archived copies are available for download in the Helix community.
Even if you could get realplayer 15 for linux now, it wouldnt be the same as the windows versions.
Have a look at the native linux players, you should find something that works for you. And/or post what you are looking for in a media player, someone might know one that looks/performs the way you want.
Another one to check out is Nightingale (aka Songbird). If they could work out some of the annoying issues, like the ability to upgrade without losing your whole media library, then this would probably be my choice. I'm afraid for it's long term success, there doesn't seem to be a lot of interest in it... though the same could be said for any media player, they're almost all fly-by-night deals (developers here one day, gone the next).
Clementine isn't that bad either.
Although I have only used it a few times, I thought iTunes wasn't that bad. If you ripped out the store integration and some of the other bloat then it would be decent I think. Reasonable UI and featureset. I especially liked the DJ/party playlist mode where you can organize the upcoming songs in real time and people could do requests. No Linux version or even an equivalent though.
Franky the situation ain't great, all the choices suck.
I thought that is was possible to get real media files playing with mplayer? I dont know for sure, I havent touched a .rm file for years, and I dont recall running across any real media format stuff online for years either.....
I'm pretty sure I had played some real audio files a couple of months ago using VLC. Old stuff that I'd had from years ago. As for a music player I tend to use either Clementine or Amarok with an overall preference of Clementine.
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I loved Amarok before it changed, now it annoys me. I moved to XFCE when KDE4 came out though so now use Rythymbox, which seems to do almost what Amarok used to (I like to shuffle play and queue songs at the same time, for example).
I'd still recommend that anyone looking for a media-collection type player take a look at Amarok though.
Audacious. Simple and fast, it is basically winamp lite for Linux. It has a playlist and it plays music. Not a screenful of different sub windows that try to "organize" every sound on your hard drive ala itunes et al. It uses the Winamp keyboard shortcuts.
BTW there are those organizer types for Linux too - Guayadeque, Rhytmbox, Exaile all work well (but a bit heavy for my tastes).
And i should mention Umplayer (a smplayer-spinoff) because it has Shoutcast (and youtube) support.
I especially liked the DJ/party playlist mode where you can organize the upcoming songs in real time and people could do requests. No Linux version or even an equivalent though.
Audacious (i have version 3.2.1) has that feature, you select the entry and press alt+q, the entries will be queued, almost like in Winamp.
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Audacious. Simple and fast, it is basically winamp lite for Linux. It has a playlist and it plays music. Not a screenful of different sub windows that try to "organize" every sound on your hard drive ala itunes et al. It uses the Winamp keyboard shortcuts.
Thanks for mentioning Audacious, I haven't used it since last century. Since the Rhythmbox tray icon vanished I've been looking for something I can integrate better into my XFCE setup and Audacious seems to fit the bill. It even has Conky integration .
I'm not sure whether being like Winamp is something to recommend it though.
I'm not sure whether being like Winamp is something to recommend it though.
Winamp (lite with the classic simple interface) is very good at playing music and being out of the way on Windows. Thats what i was referring to not the mega bloated full version.
BTW IIRC Audacious even supports Winamp skins (never tried it i just use the simple GTK interface).
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Winamp (lite with the classic simple interface) is very good at playing music and being out of the way on Windows. Thats what i was referring to not the mega bloated full version.
BTW IIRC Audacious even supports Winamp skins (never tried it i just use the simple GTK interface).
I was being a little facetious -- I do recall Winamp being better than Windows Media Player and some of the others at the time.
I know Audacious does have a Winamp-alike skin already and when I install new packages I see mention of "Winamp-Skins" (or something) from apt so I do wonder.
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