Music player

leupi · 10-29-2005, 08:37 PM

I have an iPod that I use on my WinXP machine and therefore I also came to use iTunes to listen to my music. What do most of you recomend using on Linux to listen to music? Any thoughts are appreciated, thanks.

Todd

uberNUT69 · 10-29-2005, 09:01 PM

My preferences include
totem http://www.gnome.org/projects/totem/
xmms http://www.xmms.org/

cs-cam · 10-30-2005, 01:52 AM

If you want to use your iPod with it I recommend Rhythmbox if you use GNOME or Amarok if you use KDE

leupi · 10-30-2005, 07:10 AM

I found Rhythmbox and was trying to use it but found that it cannot play MP3 files as that is not included with the RH version. I tried to follow the instructions on thier site to download what I needed to listen to MP3 files but was not having much luck. It was getting late and I was dead tired so that is my excuse

I'll try again later. So, the iPod will actually synce with Linux? WOW!

Todd

RedShirt · 10-30-2005, 11:00 AM

Yes, iPods can sync directly with linux.
I agree about Amaork, I love it.
I recommend to get mp3 playablility: http://packman.iu-bremen.de/ they have fedora and SuSE and Dedian, and RedHAt repositories to get mp3 and all kinds of video going.

cs-cam · 10-30-2005, 08:12 PM

I haven't used my iPod with Rhythmbox as I don't have it installed anymore but last time I used it they were working on the iPod support. That was ages ago now, I'm presuming it's completed by now or at least working. I use gtkpod to sync my iPod, thats another good app but it doesn't play music internally so I didn't suggest it.

leupi · 11-10-2005, 07:22 PM

redshirt,

I went to the link that you posted but I was a bit overwhelmed lol

I'm not really sure what of those I would need to enable mp3 playing in Rhythmbox (on Suse 10)

I also installed gstreamer-plugins via YaST but that did not seem to do anything for Rhythmbox. Any ideas? Thanks.

Todd

RedShirt · 11-10-2005, 09:13 PM

If youa re looking for a how to, The "Hacking OpenSUSE" Jem Report article is probably the best place for new people to start.