Re: [gentoo-user] alternatives to audacious?

["Henk Boom" <lunarc.lists@gmail.com>]

On 04/06/07, Denis <denis.che@gmail.com> wrote:
> What are some alternatives to Audacious mp3/CD player?  I really liked
> the old XMMS and used it right up until it was taken off portage.
> Audacious seems to resemble XMMS closely enough, but it seems more
> fragile.  I have it working well on one gentoo box, but on this box, I
> am just having no luck getting it to run without errors (won't read
> audio CD, master volume control is not functional, playlist errors on
> start-up... )  I'm looking for something with a GUI rather than a
> command-line player.

I had a similar issue, though the reason I had for not liking
audacious had more to do with it's atrocious memory usage. I
eventually settled on MPD (music player daemon) coupled with Sonata.
MPD requires a small amount of setup, but it's really nice and light.
Sonata is a simple GTK client which seems pretty quick and light, but
AFAIK doesn't do a couple of things which I don't really need (like EQ
controls).

Plus you can control MPD from a command line or script in a pinch
using netcat, without even having the UI open. =)

    Henk Boom
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