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Recommendation for mp3 player for Linux?

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Ace69

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I am tired of XMMS's horrid way of adding mp3s to your list. I have also tried Freeamp, but that program is a little buggy. Does anyone else have any other suggestions?
 
I like mpg123, but mpg321 has a different licence (dont know which licence they each use, just that mpg321 has a "free-er" licence).
 
mpg123 is also CLI based 🙂 (and a terrible CPU hog at that. If I try to compile with mpg123 the song will sputter the whole time. EIther xmms or noatun will never skip a beat). Most peoples don't want that. I like Noatun myself, as it is the native KDE mp3 player and (this is gonna seem really stupid) it keeps the open file dialog at the same size if I resize it under KDE. Functionality wise you'll not find much better than XMMS.
 


<< mpg123 is also CLI based 🙂 (and a terrible CPU hog at that. If I try to compile with mpg123 the song will sputter the whole time. EIther xmms or noatun will never skip a beat). Most peoples don't want that. I like Noatun myself, as it is the native KDE mp3 player and (this is gonna seem really stupid) it keeps the open file dialog at the same size if I resize it under KDE. Functionality wise you'll not find much better than XMMS. >>



I have never had problems with mpg123. But I will deffinately play with it when I get home. I think I installed mpg321 but I havent really used it. And cli is the way I work so that is why most of the utilities I use are for the command line 😉
 
I learn to use the CLI stuff b/c I never know when I might need to work remotely and don't have the GUI (or so I can fix things if X11 is screwed up ATM). When I'm kicked back on a local machine though I like GUI. (aside from simple things like file management, for which midnight commander is great).
 


<< I learn to use the CLI stuff b/c I never know when I might need to work remotely and don't have the GUI (or so I can fix things if X11 is screwed up ATM). When I'm kicked back on a local machine though I like GUI. (aside from simple things like file management, for which midnight commander is great). >>



Dont get me wrong. GUI is great, I have bb running and somewhere inthe neighborhood of 8+ xterms, xchat, and netscape. And I dont remember ever having problems with mpg123 stuttering when compiling kernels, updating ports, and doing the usual things at the same time.
 


<< Oh you are running Netscape. I thought you were actually running Lynx 🙂. >>



Can you imagine pr0n in lynx? lynx doesnt support everything I need and looks horrible on MANY sites. But I use it when I can 😉
 
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