New music player proposal

[Ron Johnson]

Aqualung is a pretty lightweight GTK-and-directories music player that 
I've liked for years.  It says that it works with JACK, but I can't 
verify the claim.
http://aqualung.factorial.hu/

On 08/14/2012 01:57 PM, Aere Greenway wrote:
> All:
>
> Personally, I like Audacious, and have been using it (specially
> installed) in whatever Ubuntu 'flavor' I have used.
>
> What some people see as 'advanced' or 'many features' is to others
> useless complication.
>
> I do not (personally) like the players that organize your music by
> various criteria (such as genre), or by how often you play it.
>
> I have my music collection organized in a directory structure, and just
> want to easily access that directory structure to choose what I play.
> Audacious does this very well, and doesn't impose its own structure on
> your music collection.
>
> I /don't/ want to have to import my entire collection, and then have to
> categorize everything according to the particular player's criteria.
>
> Audacious is simple, unobtrusive, and works well.
>
> Better yet, it is one of the /few/ players that reliably works with the
> Jack audio connection kit, which I must use in doing my MIDI music
> creations.
>
> Of course, if others agree with you, and change the player that is
> automatically installed, I will continue to install (and use) Audacious
> on my own.
>
> - Aere
>
> On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 14:22 +0200, Timothé Beemster wrote:
>> Hi lads,
>>
>> I've been using Lubuntu for some time now, but the first thing I
>> always do after installing Lubuntu, is get rid of Audacious, and
>> install GMPC (Gnome Music Player Client, it does not depend on Gnome
>> (any more)).
>> GMPC is fully featured, and praised for it's low resource usage, also
>> on playlists with over a million songs.
>> GMPC is using a plugin system, so not all functionality is obligatory,
>> if you don't use it, just turn it off!
>>
>> I would like to propose to get rid of Audacious, and make GMPC the
>> default music player, as it is a more fully featured music player than
>> Audacious, in my opinion.
>>
>> Some facts about GMPC:
>>
>>  - Website: www.gmpclient.org <http://www.gmpclient.org>
>>  - In continuous development since 2003
>>  - Depends on the great Music Player Daemon
>>  - Automatic album art search, lyrics search, artist info.
>>  - Multimedia keys
>>  - Dynamic playlists (searches similar music based on Last.FM searches)
>>  - Jamendo & Magnatune music browser
>>  - Album View
>>  - Metadata Browser
>> + a lot more.
>>
>> I would love to hear your opinions, and hope you are with me here!
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Timothy Beemster
>
> --
>
> Sincerely,
> Aere
>
>
>


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