New music player proposal

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I tend to concur with Aere and have used it with JACK for music production
as well. Aqualung does this too but I'm less fond of it. Also Audacious CAN
be configured to do all the things Aere doesn't like so it is versatile.

wxl
On Aug 14, 2012 11:57 AM, "Aere Greenway" <Aere at dvorak-keyboards.com> 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
>  - 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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