I mostly use deadbeef. X-foobar2000 user. ;) 230GB+ of music, mostly in .flac format.
@ ceh383- install a whole heap of media players. Decide which one suits you, then delete the others. ;)
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Originally Posted by dugan
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Surely XMMS (which is the entire reason Slackware still includes GTK1) and Audacious (which is looking more and more like Foobar2000 or the later versions of WinAmp) deserve to be in that list?
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Last I checked, Audacious hasn't got half the modability of foobar2000. I might give it another spin though, its been a while since I used it.
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Originally Posted by damgar
(Post 4694031)
For large music collections Amarok and it's library functions are great
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The 'library function' on amarok was part of why I hated it. Stupid thing would rescan my collection _every_time_I_started_it. Stupid media player, I know when Iwant to rescan my collection, and its not everytime I start the damned thing. Maybe I missed some setting that would let me decide when I scanned?
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Originally Posted by damgar
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VLC is incredibly capable of handling just about any file type.
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All the common files, yeah. Theres a few file types around that VLC wont play, but they are mostly stupid, pointless codecs like .tak.
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Originally Posted by schmatzler
(Post 4689813)
I use Banshee here.
- It scans my music player (a smartphone with usb mass storage functionality) automatically and is able to upload all songs I have rated with 4 or 5 stars. These songs get automatically added to my Favorites list. The playcount and rating information is written into the mp3 files, so its interchangeable.
- When I buy a new CD, it can rip it to MP3 and search various databases for the track names and album covers.
- When I download a song somewhere and the album/artist/etc. information is incorrect, it can scan the file using LastFM and fill in the missing or incorrect information automatically.
- LastFM Scrobbling!
- Internet Radio Functionality with stored radio stations, grouped by genre
- Suggestions of similar songs or artists via LastFM or Youtube, it can play Youtube music directly. I discovered a lot of new music using this feature :)
- Artist information, A Wikipedia page can be displayed containing more information ;)
What I don't like:
-The whole bunch of dependencies. Needs gnome-vfs for mounting devices, webkit for wikipedia support, google libraries for youtube etc. Once everything is correctly resolved, the damn thing works. But its hard to maintain.
-It often freezes while copying files to my music player. It does not crash but I can't listen to music normally while transferring new files.
-Handling of album covers could be better. When new album covers are downloaded Banshee stores them in its own settings folder instead of writing it into the MP3's. There is a perl script out there for doing this job, but it would be better inside :)
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Nice listing. Personally, I've never been one for the whole 'does everything' media players (VLC is the exception, but I only really use it for video). I'd rather use a really good ripper (eg rubyripper with linux, or EAC with windows) over ripping from a media player.
Doesn't virtually every player support lastFM scrobbing? Not that I do anymore, it wasnt much use for me. The stuid thing always recommended junk, and when it was sold to CBS had then they wanted payment for playing tracks, I deleted my lastFM scrobber, never to return.
IMO album covers should be written once to the folder containing the files, not to a settings folder or into the MP3 ID tags.