From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GdxUJ-0006bb-QC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 28 Oct 2006 23:21:16 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9SNIrTV006796; Sat, 28 Oct 2006 23:18:53 GMT Received: from mailout2.igs.net (mailout2.igs.net [216.58.97.88]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9SNGhYK001760 for ; Sat, 28 Oct 2006 23:16:43 GMT Received: from waltdnes.org (unknown [209.195.72.174]) by mailout2.igs.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 8500D47EB26 for ; Sat, 28 Oct 2006 19:16:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 28 Oct 2006 19:17:22 -0400 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 19:17:22 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Is there a simple .pls audio mp3-playing app? Message-ID: <20061028231722.GB25220@waltdnes.org> References: <20061023080808.0e31ed69@katana.armory.no-ip.org> <200610232114.06442.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <20061027040054.GA11950@waltdnes.org> <200610271227.52527.harmgeerts@home.nl> <20061028013503.GA13455@waltdnes.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Archives-Salt: 3fcf14d7-e7df-47bd-983c-850aabc3f8c9 X-Archives-Hash: 93b5a03b469a8c91179e80157585583b > Yes, audacious is closest replacement that I found in stable amd64 > tree. It has same philosophy as xmms. > > But it missing several features. For me it is mainly gapless output, > xosd support and wide posibilites to control it via command line > (like xmms-pipe). Consider also tons of plugins for xmms. > > I have emerged audacious to watch its development but I will stay > with xmms as long as it will be possible. Me too. I use mpg321 to play music files on my harddrive. I don't need no steenkin gui for that. mc is a great file-browser that can run in a true text console or an xterm. I have it set up to launch mpg321 when I press on an mp3 file. I have one other need for an audioplayer. I'm a paying subscriber of Live365, and I need a simple audio player to launch and play streams direct off a .pls file. audacious falls flat on its face in this task. The current version (1.1.2-r1) does *NOT* support mp3, or streaming mp3. It requires a plugin package. The plugin package is keyword masked ~x86. After unmasking the plugin package, I find that it requires a higher version of audacious, which is also keyword masked ~x86. Etc, etc., etc. Version 1.1.0 still supports mp3 directly, so I've package-masked ">media-sound/audacious-1.1.0". But wait... there's more... on at least one Live365 station, audacious plays at half speed, and the singer's voice is way down low. xmms handles that station fine. I tried RealPlayer. Unlike xmms and audacious, it can't keep up with a 96 kbps audio stream, stuttering and buffering all the time. This is on an AMDK8 3000+ with 2 gigs of RAM, running Blackbox, not some underpowered machine running a resource-hogging "desktop environment". -- Walter Dnes In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and security at http://techsec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list