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vendredi, janvier 22 2010

On media players: 2 years after

Par jd le vendredi, janvier 22 2010, 09:17 - Free Software

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

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vendredi, août 10 2007

On media players, xmms and audacious

Par jd le vendredi, août 10 2007, 11:59 - Free Software

Last month the new thread I was afraid about has started. Called Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian, the maintainers of the xmms package proposed the removal of it.




I used xmms (and, before, x11amp) for something like 9 or 10 years. I know, I love it. I can't bear other
players. Amarok is heavy, rhythmbox seems like
a joke to me. I like to load my 6500 files playlist in one shot, press 'j' and jump to the song I want. I don't
see how it could be easier to use a music player.






Following the thread, I must admit that, yes, xmms is old, gtk1.2, unmaintained, etc. I had to switch, sooner is better.






So I use now Audacious. At least I try to. Last time I tested it, the search (jump, 'j' key) function was… not working. No it is, it works like xmms, and I'm
happy. I know that upstream author of audacious dislikes being compared to xmms, but, screw you, you're like xmms, and I like it, so I like audacious for this.
The plugins and the interface is like xmms, so it's great also.






However it's buggyyyyyyy. Third day of use, serious bug reported as #436557. It segfaults sometimes, or simply blocks
reading a file.






The information loading 'on demand' is so crapy compared to xmms. I mean, it's fucking slow! When I put shuffle on and I lick 'next song please', then
it hangs reading informations. xmms was doing what in a better way.






However, dear audacious-author-that-already-hates-me-for-comparing-xmms-and-audacious, I really think it'll be a real alternative for old xmms users
like me and a lot I know (yes, I know a lot of people, damn it!). Developement seems to be very active, so I'll continue to report bug and use it.






Yes, I believe in audacious.

    
    
          

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