From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 14 08:01:27 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AABB916A401 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:01:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cptsalek@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.229]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FB7C13C428 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:01:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cptsalek@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s18so121200wxc for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:01:26 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=cqTZ3fqY6LD6EYzLzts9kTZs0H/ZN1oRfwGSkBYwPrT3LyaW/Ps1UXc3ZqE74ZnoQFssGg3zEZpOet+zS/xJiH8EX3t6g5YXnJTXn7kEjoiXZIqc0epzVIL9xkzB88y23X8NAroXk8DsivQW66XiD6vXpAhXsv5PieLy26EBdoI= Received: by 10.70.23.1 with SMTP id 1mr155938wxw.1171440086929; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:01:26 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.14.15 with HTTP; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:01:26 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <14989d6e0702140001h72c0fda7r2f8643712d435543@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:01:26 +0100 From: "Christian Walther" To: racerx@makeworld.com In-Reply-To: <45D21285.40200@makeworld.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <45D21285.40200@makeworld.com> Cc: FreeBSD - Questions Subject: Re: Poll: What's the best audio player X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:01:27 -0000 On 13/02/07, Chris wrote: > What is the best audio (MP3/OGG/Etc) to use under Gnome? I was one of those Gnome-supporters and -lovers, too. Until I recently came to the conclusion that there isn't this one particularly good desktop environment. On the contrary, some Apps are good in KDE, while others just rock in Gnome. So i compiled KDE from ports. To answer your question: - Quod Libet and Rythmbox both had problems with my setup: Older machine, audio library being mounted via NFS. Both didn't manage to scan the library fast enough. This is not to say, that both needed more than 2,5 hours or crashed. Python based players aren't an option for me, especially when they rescan the entire library on startup. - xmms and bmp(x) don't behave correctly. They have a window management on their own. This is just bad, especially when you're on a tiled WM just as ion3, wmii... - I like cmus one the command line. Needs a bit to get used to it, but you'll love it if you love vi. - Right know I'm using Amarok (yes, the KDE audio player). I like listening to Podcasts and Internet radio streams, and both are handled quite nicely. Christian