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Lord.DragonFly.of.Dawn
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 Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2025 2:31 am Post subject: Suggestion for music players |
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I am looking to find a new media player and would like suggestions.
For ages I have used MPD with mpc (CLI) or Sonata (GUI) and have been extremely happy with them.
But they do not support media players. In the past i have used amarok for the rare times i needed to update the content on my ipod, but I have just upgraded to a Sansa Fuze and Amarok just "upgraded" to 2.0. I never liked amarok as it was a KDE app and I am a gnome-boy, but Amarok 2.0 is absolutely unusable for me.
So i need to find a new player for syncing my Fuze (Sakura). My single requirement is simple but apparently hard to find.
1) it should support viewing my collection in directory mode.
I have my collection set up in a fairly rigid directory structure that I understand and remember, but no media player I have found (other than MPD) uses the actual directory structure of the library as a view of the library. Amarok had/has the filesystem view which is not optimal but workable.
If anyone knows of a media player (gtk based for preference, but i am flexable) that supports media players (the Fuze in particular) and directory view of the music collection please tell me. If it uses MPD as a backend that would be ultra-bonus.
I have tried:
Rhythmbox (annoying in the extreme but works, does not have directory view)
Exaile (does not work)
Amarok 2 (segfaults unless I am actually using KDE and then is absolutely hideous)
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| Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2025 5:30 am Post subject: |
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Banshee?
I don't know about directory view, but I like it as a music player. Right now, I'm using Rhythmbox, though. Banshee doesn't seem to install well for me on Arch.
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Lord.DragonFly.of.Dawn
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| Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2025 4:47 pm Post subject: |
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| jada wrote: | http://gmpc.wikia.com/wiki/Gnome_Music_Player_Client
I think this will be something for you! |
it looks nice but does it interface with my media player? I can't seem to find that functionality.
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| Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2025 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Lord.DragonFly.of.Dawn wrote: | | jada wrote: | http://gmpc.wikia.com/wiki/Gnome_Music_Player_Client
I think this will be something for you! |
it looks nice but does it interface with my media player? I can't seem to find that functionality. |
I can't tell you, because I am 100% KDE.
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| Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2025 11:54 pm Post subject: |
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well it appears to be a great music player but does not support syncing portable media players....
the search continues...
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| how about quodlibet? - I've not used it recently but it was a favourite at one time
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| Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2025 12:40 am Post subject: |
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I'll try it out.
updates in 2-8 hours. (depends if sleep hits early...)
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| Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2025 3:18 am Post subject: |
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| Quodlibet is working pretty nice so far. I'm not ready to adopt it full time as it seems to have some interesting behavior that I need to figure out.... once i do i may well drop MPD entirely...
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| Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2025 3:34 am Post subject: |
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| Lord.DragonFly.of.Dawn wrote: | | Quodlibet is working pretty nice so far. I'm not ready to adopt it full time as it seems to have some interesting behavior that I need to figure out.... once i do i may well drop MPD entirely... |
like I said it's been a while since I last used it - what in particular are you referring to in the interesting behaviour?
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| Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2025 1:36 pm Post subject: |
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It's interface with the media player is... unique. Sometimes it will do odd things like dispolay every track on the device twice and stuff like that...
once i figure that out then it'll be golden.
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| Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2025 1:59 pm Post subject: |
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I found that I'd installed quodlibet (currentlyv.2.0.4) on my Arch64 at some stage so I've been playing with it and I don't get the issue you mention when I plug in my iPod (HFS+)
Which OS, which version of quodlibet, media-player [url=http://www.wireless.att.com/cell-phone-service/cell-phone-details/?device=HTC+FUZE(TM)&q_sku=sku3090226](this one?)[/url] and anything else relevant?
Have you hacked that phone or is still WinMobile based?
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| Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2025 2:33 pm Post subject: |
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(URL fixed for clicking pleasure) (this one?)
not a phone.... a sansa fuze, not to be confused with the phone.
Archlinux x86_64
the player
| Code: | [dragonfly@Mizuho ~]$ pacman -Qi quodlibet
Name : quodlibet
Version : 2.0-4
URL : http://code.google.com/p/quodlibet/
Licenses : GPL2
Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : gstreamer0.10-python>=0.10.13-2 gstreamer0.10-base-plugins gstreamer0.10-good-plugins gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins mutagen
pygtk>=2.13.0-2
Optional Deps : gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg: for ffmpeg (ASF/WMA) support
gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins: for MPEG-4 (AAC) and Musepack support
dbus-python: for dbus support
libgpod: for ipod support
python-feedparser: for audio feeds (podcast) support
hal: for media devices support
Required By : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Installed Size : 3448.00 K
Packager : Eric Belanger <[email protected]>
Architecture : x86_64
Build Date : Sat 07 Feb 2025 05:37:34 PM EST
Install Date : Mon 27 Apr 2025 10:34:24 PM EDT
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : No
Description : An audio player written in pygtk |
it doesn't happen all the time either, so something must be triggering it.... i just have to find out what.
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| Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2025 3:10 pm Post subject: |
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[exasperation]why are the url tags killing me today?[/exasperation]
OK - hardware clarified, OS environment clearer - we're basically running the same set-up bar the media-player - anything else we can do to eliminate other variables?
(I'll get to this tomorrow - I'm in gentoo64 timing a gcc compile <-- yes I am that sad)
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