From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 2 20:19:48 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9057D106566C for ; Tue, 2 Feb 2010 20:19:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from max@love2party.net) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.17.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FAA68FC08 for ; Tue, 2 Feb 2010 20:19:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vampire.homelinux.org (dslb-088-064-184-208.pools.arcor-ip.net [88.64.184.208]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrbap2) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MLRLO-1NcxG13x4s-000mQk; Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:07:12 +0100 Received: (qmail 16928 invoked from network); 2 Feb 2010 20:07:11 -0000 Received: from f8x64.laiers.local (192.168.4.188) by mx.laiers.local with SMTP; 2 Feb 2010 20:07:11 -0000 From: Max Laier Organization: FreeBSD To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 21:07:09 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.4 (FreeBSD/8.0-RELEASE-p2; KDE/4.3.4; amd64; ; ) References: <4B67A778.7040001@telenix.org> In-Reply-To: <4B67A778.7040001@telenix.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201002022107.09109.max@love2party.net> X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+leKHjD8vTl/Assrk5Ia0SF/412FOh9Voachq eKzi/EMoyAWiXIBNUyFrlbcAb1Uus2HjdZH3Y4KcS1ldMqBQ0L iCaPD0OWv3+16ydFS6fFw== Cc: Chuck Robey Subject: Re: Recommendation X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:19:48 -0000 On Tuesday 02 February 2010 05:18:00 Chuck Robey wrote: > I'm having a hard time trying to figure out what/where is the best playlist > driven audio player with a graphical UI ... there's too large a selection > (both audio and multimedia dirs) for any reasonable manual search, and > since I'm after a good graphical UI for it, I couldn't even construct any > sort of automatic search I can think of, the pkg-descr files aren't that > reliable. My audio, which I do via spdif, already works fine (using > mplayer so far) so don't give me directions how to *do* it, I'm just > looking for a port name which offers me a good interface for playlists, > maybe even helping me build playlists (because I've already loaded all my > CDs to my disk). > > Thanks. I'm asking for opinions, so don't hesitate to offer me your own > favorites, I'll go look at every one suggested, and I'll really appreciate > it. I still love audio/amarok (the pre-KDE4 version), it indexes your collection, offers "smart" playlists, and last.fm integration. There is the KDE4 version in ports as well, but I think the developers have fallen into a classic 2nd system trap when they did the relaunch. Cheers, Max