Recommendation

[Chuck Robey]

Charlie Kester wrote:
> On Wed 03 Feb 2010 at 11:29:14 PST Chuck Robey wrote:
>>
>> I asked for all opinions, but I need to answer here before my thread gets
>> hijacked.  I DON'T WANT GUI-less operation, I don't want random
>> playback.  I
>> really do appreciate your response, but what I'm after is the best
>> possible mp3
>> player GUI for managing the creation and manipulation of playlist
>> driven playback.
>>
>> The only possible reason I have for replying  here is to avoid getting
>> all
>> thouse responses from folks who don't like GUIs.  Hell, I'm usually in
>> that
>> camp, but not this time.  The suggestion I got for musicpd is a player
>> with lots
>> of hooks into GUIs (according to the email) but my playback already works
>> excellently, what I'm after is the GUI, not the server.
>>
>> I've had some great suggestions so far.  I think I'll go try amarok
>> first, and maybe rhythmbox next.  You folks are REALLY helpful,
>> thanks!!
> 
> Sorry, I didn't mean to hijack your thread! 
> Amarok is very popular and is a good choice, despite what someone said
> about the latest version having a case of featuritis.  The older 1.4
> version from ports is quite good.  A little heavier in resource usage
> than rhythmbox or exaile, but it's a solid implementation with no
> missing features. 
> It handles my favorite podcasts correctly too, so there's no need to
> pair it with PenguinTV.  And it includes an equalizer, something I've
> sorely missed in Rhythmbox and Exaile.
> I had some m3u playlists with bad path info for some of the tracks.  Wih
> amarok, I was able to drag the track from my "Collection" and drop it in
> the imported playlist.  The m3u file was automatically updated with the
> correct info.  Now that's cool!

Charlie, I have my audio playing by using artsd, using speakers which connect
directly to my PC via optical (I don't use direct wired connections, only
optical or spdif).  I can't seem to get any audio out of audacious, so I looked
into the preferences, and couldn't see any option to connect via artsd.  OK, I'm
willing to change here if I must (not anxious, because artsd has so far
connected perfectly to everything else) but what driver would you recommend?
Jack?  Or maybe esound?

I looked over jack, and was a little surprised to find not one word in that port
referring to how to set up rc.conf to autostart it, couldn't even find something
in /usr/local/etc/rc.d for it.  How's jack start up?  I haven't looked at esound
yet.  I've got a X11 problem too, but I figured that was outside the stuff
you've been helping me on, so I asked that on another list.

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