From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ISkMZ-0002EO-Cn for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 02:11:27 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l8523ioX012540; Wed, 5 Sep 2007 02:03:44 GMT Received: from vms040pub.verizon.net (vms040pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.40]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l851wcHY004862 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2007 01:58:38 GMT Received: from [192.168.0.11] ([72.71.198.64]) by vms040.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPA id <0JNV00GD8HHA7WYO@vms040.mailsrvcs.net> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 20:58:22 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:58:25 -0400 From: sean Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Music Retrieval In-reply-to: <20070904131110.70e1a4d7@pascal.spore.ath.cx> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <46DE0D41.6080308@verizon.net> 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=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <46DAFA54.3040208@verizon.net> <46DAFE88.9040200@gmail.com> <46DB0D79.9070909@verizon.net> <28873.198.151.13.15.1188921161.squirrel@webmail.sbinsystems.com> <46DD9D64.1040800@verizon.net> <20070904131110.70e1a4d7@pascal.spore.ath.cx> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070821) X-Archives-Salt: 3a642da7-828c-4ba6-af31-84bbea2655ec X-Archives-Hash: 299c68c216488922967f7a42b95ebcc4 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. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list