Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Music Retrieval

[sean <tech.junk@verizon.net>]

Dan Farrell wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:01:08 -0400
>
> 
>> I was only trying out Amarok.
> 
> What did you think?  I thought it was super cool, except it's resource
> utilization is so high i don't run it anymore if I can avoid.  

I thought it looked interesting, but much more then I really need.
Took a while for playback getting started when I put a music CD in the 
player.
Like the capabilities of Internet radio, played with a bit, before removal.

>> I suspect they aren't sending the information via icmp, so just the
>> fact that the server is "pingable" really doesn't provide useful
>> information in this particular case.
> 
> yeah, but it is a lot more likely that the server would be down than
> that it's just misconfigured.  servers go down all the time; they are
> generally seldom administered.  so it seems to me a ping is a good
> first step in testing access to these servers.  im guessing CDDB does
> use IP, so if icmp can get through, so can tcp (udp,or any other
> protocols encapsulated in ip).  

Audacious works fine on info retrieval, Amarok only worked a short bit, 
even when both installed together.
Still tend to think that something was not right when the package was 
emerged.
Anyway, I will stick with Audacious for now.
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