On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 01:17:56PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > PLAYER: > The idea would be to play mp3's and cd's off of this thing. > > My family hates using xmms; they find it hard to look at and a little > disconcerting, I think mostly because ofthe multiple windows. Also > there's no built-in playlist manager, which confuses them. > > I've lately taken to using Amarok on my desktop, which I find a pretty > satisfying experience (though occacionally buggy, e.g. crashes when it > encounters a radio stream it doesn't like). But I hesitate to install > something that depends so heavily on the kde environment to work. > Haven't used Rhythmbox for a while, but it used to crash on my all the > time when I did use it. BMP is easier to look at than xmms is, but it > still doesn't have a playlist manager (far as I can tell). [by > playlist manager I mean a usable GUI that lets you choose among > playlist you've created. Not sure this is the right term...] > > So none of the options with which I'm familiar seem perfect. Does > anyone have any suggestions? Like, can amarok work without loading > hundreds of megs of kde/qt stuff into memory? Is there a playlist > manager plugin for bmp? > > It would be great if all of this worked well enough for a 10-year-old > to be able to use it.
We have a headless computer at work to manage our music playing and run musicpd (http://www.musicpd.org/) on it. It seems to work pretty well and has several different interfaces to it. Although I'm not sure if it will play cd's. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
