From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 3 20:37:43 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 2359E106566C for ; Wed, 3 Feb 2010 20:37:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from corky1951@comcast.net) Received: from qmta03.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta03.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.32]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C59B18FC0C for ; Wed, 3 Feb 2010 20:37:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta17.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.89]) by qmta03.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id dQ9h1d0051vXlb853YdVem; Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:37:29 +0000 Received: from comcast.net ([98.203.142.76]) by omta17.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id dYen1d0021f6R9u3dYeolQ; Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:38:51 +0000 Received: by comcast.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:37:36 -0800 Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 12:37:36 -0800 From: Charlie Kester To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100203203736.GE1920@comcast.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org References: <4B67A778.7040001@telenix.org> <87vdefgtbx.fsf@kobe.laptop> <20100202231840.GB1920@comcast.net> <87k4uvgp5o.fsf@kobe.laptop> <20100203064734.GC1920@comcast.net> <4B69CE8A.1050300@telenix.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B69CE8A.1050300@telenix.org> X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5.20 X-Composer: VIM 7.2 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:37:43 -0000 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!