New music player proposal

[Ron Johnson]

Fortunately the package police won't swoop in and arrest me for 
installing aqualung and purging audacious from my netbook...  :)

On 08/14/2012 02:23 PM, Maps Backward wrote:
> 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
>>

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