On media players: 2 years after
Par jd le vendredi, janvier 22 2010, 09:17 - Free Software - Lien permanent
Two years ago, I wrote about my switch from my beloved xmms to audacious.
During this 2 years with Audacious, I suffered a bit. It was working quite fine, but I saw no big progress around it. Life happened, and I had to use a network system to play music. I started to use PulseAudio over TCP, but it does not work well, and does not work at all with Audacious (and even if the plugin is provided by upstream). So I decided to dump it.
And some days ago I discovered Sonata, a MPD client. I never liked MPD so far because all clients I found were lame.
But I really like Sonata. It allows me to listen music the way I still want: load everything in one playlist, listen everything randomly or type a song/artist to jump to it directly in the current playlist. It even has some nice feature (lyrics, so I'll be able to song out loud, covers, tag editing…) and is written in Python and GTK+ (some days I may even hack it!).
You can rest in peace x11amp :-p
Commentaires
Have you seen Quodlibet? I'm also a xmms-style (ok, winamp-style) player lover, so I'm currently split between audacious and quodlibet. The nice thing about the latter is that it has multiple, easily accessible, winamp-style playlists which you can drag-and-drop between.
I'm going to see Sonata, though.
I must agree with '_deepfire', after a couple of years using sonata+mpd, the other day I tried quodlibet and so far I'm satisfied with the results.
The only thing I miss about these two is the 'sort by date added' type of ...sorting that Rhythmbox has.
I found gmpc much better than Sonata. Did you try it? And as a long time mpd user, I found mpdscribble the best scrobbler out there (if you are into scrobbling).