Discussion Forums > Technology
Need Software for Playing music
nelfin:
@Lupin, for Linux there's often the paradox of too much choice, Exaile is a good Amarok 1.4 clone. Songbird is a pretty good iTunes clone.
However, for a player that just plays music and stays out of your way, I'd have to say mpd (Music Player Daemon). Plays (pretty much) any and all music file-types; uses very little resources; and has no "interface" as such, you have to use a frontend to control it (sonata is a nice graphical one, mpc is the default cli one) which is a plus for me (less bloat), but maybe not for some.
Xtras:
See the thing I like about Songbird, is that since it also doubles as an internet browser, I can also open tabs of my favorite online streaming hosts, and one to my Youtube profile's music video playlists. It lets me keep all of my music in one window instead of having to switch back and forth between a media player and a browser. Don't know if that is of significance to anyone else, but I like it myself.
Additionally, Songbird has quite a few good plugins and is decently customizable. Though I'd say Foobar has the edge with this.
Joshua0001:
Is there a player I can use to replace itunes that both can be used with my ipod and play flac files? Would also like it if it could upload the flack files to my ipod without having to make a separate version. if it maters i run a win 7 64 bit
Proin Drakenzol:
--- Quote from: Joshua0001 on March 14, 2010, 05:16:31 PM ---Is there a player I can use to replace itunes that both can be used with my ipod and play flac files? Would also like it if it could upload the flack files to my ipod without having to make a separate version. if it maters i run a win 7 64 bit
--- End quote ---
Throw away your iPod and buy a different media player? Like the Creative Zen X-Fi2 (native .flac support). iPods don't natively play .flac and I haven't heard of any reliable hacks for it to allow it to do so. Though I've personally found it's better to just convert to .mp3/.mp4 anyway, audio files are smaller and the difference from a small media player between .mp3/.mp4 and .flac is fairly negligible.
Joshua0001:
--- Quote from: Proin Drakenzol on March 14, 2010, 05:36:27 PM ---
--- Quote from: Joshua0001 on March 14, 2010, 05:16:31 PM ---Is there a player I can use to replace itunes that both can be used with my ipod and play flac files? Would also like it if it could upload the flack files to my ipod without having to make a separate version. if it maters i run a win 7 64 bit
--- End quote ---
Throw away your iPod and buy a different media player? Like the Creative Zen X-Fi2 (native .flac support). iPods don't natively play .flac and I haven't heard of any reliable hacks for it to allow it to do so. Though I've personally found it's better to just convert to .mp3/.mp4 anyway, audio files are smaller and the difference from a small media player between .mp3/.mp4 and .flac is fairly negligible.
--- End quote ---
thats what i do but when your talking about a torrent that has a lot of tracks to it its just a pain in the ass to thing to do.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version