Music player recommendation needed
Robert Spanjaard
spamtrap at arumes.com
Thu Jan 5 08:47:35 UTC 2012
On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:45:31 +0000, Robert Spanjaard wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:00:23 +0000, R Kimber wrote:
>
>> I'm looking for a music player that will read the (mostly flac) files
>> on my disk and will allow me to navigate through my collection by
>> directory name. All the players I've looked at seem to be geared to pop
>> music (mine is classical) and seem to present the database according to
>> meta information about artists, albums, etc., that the program detects.
>> My music is arranged in directories by composer name, and that's what
>> makes sense to me, but most players seem to make a nonesense of the
>> directory structure and quite often they put the tracks in a different
>> order from the one in which I want the files played (indicated by a
>> number in the filename - e.g. 01-movement-I.flac
>> 02-movement-II.flac
>> and so on.)
>>
>> Is there a player that will display files in normal directory order and
>> will play all the files in a given directory in the normal sort order?
>
> Quod Libet will let YOU decide how to display the files.
>
> Directory and/or file name is available. In my screenshot (link below) I
> added it as the last column, but you can make it the only column if
> that's what you want. Number, types and order of columns are completely
> customizable.
>
> http://www.arumes.com/temp/ql-screenshot.png
>
> You can create columns based on any tag, including QL's 'internal' tags.
> http://code.google.com/p/quodlibet/wiki/AudioTags
BTW, it's available in the repositories.
Searching for "quod" will do the trick. :-)
--
Regards, Robert http://www.arumes.com
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