[gentoo-user] Re: xmms alternative

[Harm Geerts <harmgeerts@home.nl>]

On Saturday 28 October 2006 08:30, Sarah wrote:
> Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > On 23/10/06, Arnau Bria <arnau@emergetux.net> wrote:
> >> On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:08:08 -0400
> >>
> >> Dave V wrote:
> >> > Hello,
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> > I just read on the gentoo-dev list that xmms is about to be removed,
> >> > but it's probably the only sound player that I've used. Could someone
> >> > recommend a good alternative. I'm rather surprised that no one wanted
> >> > to maintain the packages.
> >>
> >> you should, not should, you MUST use Amarok :-)
> >>
> >> Cheers!
> >
> > I second that. My search for the ultimate music player has stopped
> > with Amarok. Absolutely brilliant. Name a feature- lyrics? wikipedia
> > integration? It's got it.
> >
> > Dotan Cohen
> >
> > http://rorot.com
> > http://what-is-what.com/what_is/linux.html
>
> Hi, I'm new to the list but have been lurking for a while... so forgive
> the slightly long post (bits of 'background' included to put things in
> context)
>
> I tried to get on with Amarok - I tried on my Ubuntu install before I
> discovered Gentoo... thought I'd be bound to get it working with Gentoo
> but couldn't... and tried Rhythmbox in desperation to have something
> play music.
>
>  From what I've seen of Amarok, I'd love it, but I every time I've
> installed it I've run into the same problems:
>
> All our music (about 80 Gb, I think, mainly (but not all) OGG files) is
> stored on a server, accessed on a mounted Samba share.  The share would
> mount correctly - and I tried mounting it with a variety of permissions
> set - but I couldn't get Amarok to 'read' the music collection
> successfully.  I read various man/wiki/help pages which were supposed to
> get it working but I couldn't - and when Amarok bombed out it would take
> the system with it - things would lock up and I ended up have to reboot
> (!) and/or have major problems getting sound to work at all (it seemed
> to come and go, almost without reason).
>
> I'm a relative newbie with linux and have only had my gentoo install up
> and running for about a month now... but I have managed to get most
> other things sorted by *lots* of reading/Googling.  I started off with
> kde, removed that (despite really giving KDE a really good go, I still
> wanted to go back to my Gnome comfort zone!) and installed gnome-light,
> unmasked the ~x86 packages that gnome-light pulled in and upgraded
> them... and sound works at last.  And Rhythmbox works - but I don't like
> it (never have).  I had xmms on my Ubuntu install... and had emerged it
> (now unmerged) to use with Gentoo... and would love to have a simple,
> working Amarok... but I haven't got my bravery together to embark on
> trying again!
>
> I can't help thinking the problem lies with my (lack of) understanding
> of samba - our Squeezebox serves up the music from the samba share
> beautifully - so I'm not sure what I'm getting wrong in how I mount the
> share (mounting exactly the same way is fine for Rhythmbox) for Amarok
> to read.  Maybe I'll have another go one day soon!  If anyone has any
> hot tips or pointers that might help, I'd be grateful - I think I'll
> tear all my hair out if I try to emerge it again and end up with big
> problems with my system (I so want to avoid a problem that I'll be doing
> a full system backup before I have a go).
>
> I wouldn't vote for rhythmbox.  I might try audacious instead.  But I'd
> really like a working amarok!

It seems amarok is a little picky about this.
http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Samba

You should be aware that amarok opens all files to read the metadata (tags) 
when you add them to the collection. This is done just once, after that all 
the metadata is stored in amaroks database.
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