Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 22:47:34 -0800 From: Charlie Kester <corky1951@comcast.net> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommendation Message-ID: <20100203064734.GC1920@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <87k4uvgp5o.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <4B67A778.7040001@telenix.org> <87vdefgtbx.fsf@kobe.laptop> <20100202231840.GB1920@comcast.net> <87k4uvgp5o.fsf@kobe.laptop>
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On Tue 02 Feb 2010 at 16:04:51 PST Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 15:18:41 -0800, Charlie Kester <corky1951@comcast.net> wrote:
>>On Tue 02 Feb 2010 at 14:34:42 PST Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>>> I've been trying Rhythmbox too lately. It also recognizes IDv3 tags,
>>> has playlist support, podcast download and archive support, last.fm
>>> integration and online streaming radio support. Some bits of the UI
>>> are, to put it mildly, "dumped down". This is a common problem of many
>>> Gnome applications these days, it seems. I've only used it for about a
>>> week or two now, so I can't really say if I _like_ it yet.
>>
>> I've been trying Exaile and Rhythmbox too. I think I prefer Rhythmbox,
>> because it handles my .m3u playlists in the way I like. It immediately
>> lists them in the sidebar under Playlists, and they persist there from
>> session to session.
>
>Yes, that's a really _nice_ feature of Rhythmbox :-)
>
>When I am trying to 'enter the zone' and code for 3-4 hours without jumps
>from one context to another, I often load a large m3u playlist to Rhythmbox
>and let it repeat itself forever. Then I start writing and lose myself in
>the process of creating things instead of going back and forth between my
>terminal and the player in an effort to "keep the playlist filled with nice
>music".
>
>The context switch from the work I am going to the player is always hurtful
>for my concentration, so persistent playlists help me avoid it as much
>as possible.
OTOH, if I want continuous random playback of a playlist without the
overhead of a graphical music manager, I go with
mpg123 -C -Z -@ playlist.m3u
in a terminal window. To make it easier to launch this by clicking the
m3u file in a file manager like Thunar, I have a desktop settings file
for it. ~/.local/share/applications/mpg123-random-usercreated.desktop:
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Terminal=true
Name=mpg123-random
Exec=mpg123 -C -Z -@ %F
MimeType=audio/mpeg
Then either I associate this with the .m3u file type in the usual way,
or I leave .m3u associated with something else and use "Open with other
Application" to select mpg123-random.
When I'm deeply immersed in my work, I don't need to see the album cover
and other info the graphical music managers show me about the currently
playing song. mpg123 gives more than enough such info, but I almost
never look at it. (The only reason I run it in a terminal window is to
make it easy to shutdown and to be able to skip past a song I've decided
I no longer like -- hence the use of the -C option.)
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