Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xmms alternative

[Chris Walters <cjw2004d@comcast.net>]

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Harm Geerts wrote:
> On Friday 27 October 2006 06:00, Walter Dnes wrote:
>>>> f) it has no good alternative :-(
>>> it has. amarok, alsaplayer, xine....
>> [m3000][root][~] emerge --ask alsaplayer
>>
>> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>>
>> Calculating dependencies
>> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "alsaplayer".
>>
>>   OK guys, where is alsaplayer hiding?
>>
>>   xine ==> almost as bloated as Windows Media Player.  I want a simple
>> *AUDIO PLAYER* dammit, not some honking big "multi-media" package that
>> takes forever to build.  I've had problems building xine, and swear by
>> mplayer.  I'd sooner use mplayer than xine.
>>
>>   amarok ==> Even worse than xine.  It's a Windows Media Player wannabee
>> bloated frontend that ends up launching xine.  In addition to building
>> xinelib, it also builds kde-base, ruby, and a bunch of other junk.
> 
> Amarok is Microsofts wet dream.
> Amarok has so much more to offer.
> To qualify it as a wmp wannabee is just ignorant and only makes you look 
> bad...
> 
> Anyway, like Daniel said, audacious is what you want.

Just adding my $0.02, here.  I've tried both wmp and Amarok (among other
free programs).  Just my opinion, but wmp is a piece of crap - I've
never used it - after I tried it, even on my windoze systems.

OTOH, Amarok is a very good program (again my opinion), and it will
likely only get better.  Can you tell I chose Amarok to replace Xmms?

Chris
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