Re: Audio-visual drivers?

Martin Gregorie

Thanks for all the helpful replies: the suggested list of players and
drivers is just what I needed. I've now found all their sites and made
notes of what will get installed. The references to Livna and atrpms.net
are particularly useful.

I'm more interested in audio than video, so:

- Does anybody use mpd?
- Why is mpd preferable to the player apps apart from not occupying
screen space when its running?
- Which is the better player: Audacious or XMMS?

I'd intended to post this earlier but Thunderbird had a brain fart and
lost almost its entire collection of read posts. I've now made its
deletion policy more conservative. I hope that improves its mind.


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alexd

Martin Gregorie wrote:

> - Which is the better player: Audacious or XMMS?

I started using Audacious because XMMS went EOL. From an operational
perspective, they behave identically. Audacious is probably 'better'
because it's current, so more likely to receive bugfixes and compile in
modern environments; to wit, XMMS was the last thing depending on GTK 1.x
when I removed it.

The only thing missing from Audacious that was in XMMS [that I've noticed]
was the ability to delete playlist items from the hard drive.

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Martin Gregorie

Geoffrey Clements wrote:
> "alexd" <troffasky*************> wrote in message
> news:10426719.2ePC4nYIAl@ale.cx...
>> Martin Gregorie wrote:
>>
>>> - Which is the better player: Audacious or XMMS?
>> I started using Audacious because XMMS went EOL. From an operational
>> perspective, they behave identically. Audacious is probably 'better'
>> because it's current, so more likely to receive bugfixes and compile in
>> modern environments; to wit, XMMS was the last thing depending on GTK 1.x
>> when I removed it.
>>
>
> In addition both Gentoo and Slackware have dropped XMMS, I think the major
> reason for this was its dependency on GTK1.x which is poorly supported (if
> at all).
>
Thanks for that. Looks like Audacious is a good starting point.

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Martin Gregorie

Geoffrey Clements wrote:
> "alexd" <troffasky*************> wrote in message
> news:10426719.2ePC4nYIAl@ale.cx...
>> Martin Gregorie wrote:
>>
>>> - Which is the better player: Audacious or XMMS?
>> I started using Audacious because XMMS went EOL. From an operational
>> perspective, they behave identically. Audacious is probably 'better'
>> because it's current, so more likely to receive bugfixes and compile in
>> modern environments; to wit, XMMS was the last thing depending on GTK 1.x
>> when I removed it.
>>
>
> In addition both Gentoo and Slackware have dropped XMMS, I think the major
> reason for this was its dependency on GTK1.x which is poorly supported (if
> at all).
>
Thanks for that. Looks like Audacious is a good starting point.

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gregorie. | Es***, UK
org |

Geoffrey Clements

"alexd" <troffasky*************> wrote in message
news:10426719.2ePC4nYIAl@ale.cx...
> Martin Gregorie wrote:
>
>> - Which is the better player: Audacious or XMMS?
>
> I started using Audacious because XMMS went EOL. From an operational
> perspective, they behave identically. Audacious is probably 'better'
> because it's current, so more likely to receive bugfixes and compile in
> modern environments; to wit, XMMS was the last thing depending on GTK 1.x
> when I removed it.
>

In addition both Gentoo and Slackware have dropped XMMS, I think the major
reason for this was its dependency on GTK1.x which is poorly supported (if
at all).

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Martin Gregorie

Geoffrey Clements wrote:
> "alexd" <troffasky*************> wrote in message
> news:10426719.2ePC4nYIAl@ale.cx...
>> Martin Gregorie wrote:
>>
>>> - Which is the better player: Audacious or XMMS?
>> I started using Audacious because XMMS went EOL. From an operational
>> perspective, they behave identically. Audacious is probably 'better'
>> because it's current, so more likely to receive bugfixes and compile in
>> modern environments; to wit, XMMS was the last thing depending on GTK 1.x
>> when I removed it.
>>
>
> In addition both Gentoo and Slackware have dropped XMMS, I think the major
> reason for this was its dependency on GTK1.x which is poorly supported (if
> at all).
>
Thanks for that. Looks like Audacious is a good starting point.

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gregorie. | Es***, UK
org |

Nix

On 6 Dec 2007, Martin Gregorie outgrape:

> Thanks for all the helpful replies: the suggested list of players and drivers is just what I needed. I've now found all their sites
> and made notes of what will get installed. The references to Livna and atrpms.net are particularly useful.
>
> I'm more interested in audio than video, so:
>
> - Does anybody use mpd?

*waves*

> - Why is mpd preferable to the player apps apart from not occupying
> screen space when its running?

It's useful if you tend to run multiple player apps at once, if you
restart X a lot, or if you generally want to keep your music playing no
matter what the hell happens. (It's also useful if you have an
unattended music-playing jukebox: run MPD on it, and Bob's your
uncle.)

> - Which is the better player: Audacious or XMMS?

XMMS is long maintenance-dead.

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Nix

On 6 Dec 2007, Martin Gregorie outgrape:

> Thanks for all the helpful replies: the suggested list of players and drivers is just what I needed. I've now found all their sites
> and made notes of what will get installed. The references to Livna and atrpms.net are particularly useful.
>
> I'm more interested in audio than video, so:
>
> - Does anybody use mpd?

*waves*

> - Why is mpd preferable to the player apps apart from not occupying
> screen space when its running?

It's useful if you tend to run multiple player apps at once, if you
restart X a lot, or if you generally want to keep your music playing no
matter what the hell happens. (It's also useful if you have an
unattended music-playing jukebox: run MPD on it, and Bob's your
uncle.)

> - Which is the better player: Audacious or XMMS?

XMMS is long maintenance-dead.

--
`The rest is a tale of post and counter-post.' --- Ian Rawlings
describes USENET

Nix

On 6 Dec 2007, Martin Gregorie outgrape:

> Thanks for all the helpful replies: the suggested list of players and drivers is just what I needed. I've now found all their sites
> and made notes of what will get installed. The references to Livna and atrpms.net are particularly useful.
>
> I'm more interested in audio than video, so:
>
> - Does anybody use mpd?

*waves*

> - Why is mpd preferable to the player apps apart from not occupying
> screen space when its running?

It's useful if you tend to run multiple player apps at once, if you
restart X a lot, or if you generally want to keep your music playing no
matter what the hell happens. (It's also useful if you have an
unattended music-playing jukebox: run MPD on it, and Bob's your
uncle.)

> - Which is the better player: Audacious or XMMS?

XMMS is long maintenance-dead.

--
`The rest is a tale of post and counter-post.' --- Ian Rawlings
describes USENET