Sorry for the off topic posting, but I'm not a real music person and know little about what software will do what. Without turning this into a big discussion for pro or con, could someone drop a line or 3 just stating the name(s) of some type music players? I'd probably want something that would play CD's and perhaps mp3's. I don't guess there is a "catch-all" like the windows media player that does it all is there?
Thanks..
Snowman
On 1/28/06, Sam Drinkard sam@wa4phy.net wrote:
Sorry for the off topic posting, but I'm not a real music person and know little about what software will do what. Without turning this into a big discussion for pro or con, could someone drop a line or 3 just stating the name(s) of some type music players? I'd probably want something that would play CD's and perhaps mp3's. I don't guess there is a "catch-all" like the windows media player that does it all is there?Thanks..
Sure there is.
xmms will play mp3s, wma, ogg, flac, cds and more. It's very simplistic, and a bit like winamp3 on the windows side. (requires xmms-mp3s from dag or other external repository)
Rythmbox is okay, but is really basic.
AmaroK is a KDE media player that is fairly heavy (being a KDE app and all) but it's quite nice, plays video, mp3, and pretty much every other media format. It needs some plugins to operate as well, but has all the trimmings.
I prefer xmms, but I like simplicity, and AmaroK is quite nice for what it is.
-- Jim Perrin System Architect - UIT Ft Gordon & US Army Signal Center
Jim Perrin wrote:
On 1/28/06, Sam Drinkard sam@wa4phy.net wrote:
Sorry for the off topic posting, but I'm not a real music person and know little about what software will do what. Without turning this into a big discussion for pro or con, could someone drop a line or 3 just stating the name(s) of some type music players? I'd probably want something that would play CD's and perhaps mp3's. I don't guess there is a "catch-all" like the windows media player that does it all is there?Thanks..
Sure there is.
xmms will play mp3s, wma, ogg, flac, cds and more. It's very simplistic, and a bit like winamp3 on the windows side. (requires xmms-mp3s from dag or other external repository)
Rythmbox is okay, but is really basic.
AmaroK is a KDE media player that is fairly heavy (being a KDE app and all) but it's quite nice, plays video, mp3, and pretty much every other media format. It needs some plugins to operate as well, but has all the trimmings.
I prefer xmms, but I like simplicity, and AmaroK is quite nice for what it is.
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HI Jim,
I guess I should have been more explicit and I always forget.. Need it to work on the x86_64 version. I know that probably leaves out some stuff designed for the 386 architecture.
Sam
I guess I should have been more explicit and I always forget.. Need it to work on the x86_64 version. I know that probably leaves out some stuff designed for the 386 architecture.
Not the ones I mentioned.
-- Jim Perrin System Architect - UIT Ft Gordon & US Army Signal Center
On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 23:31 -0500, Jim Perrin wrote:
I guess I should have been more explicit and I always forget.. Need it to work on the x86_64 version. I know that probably leaves out some stuff designed for the 386 architecture.
Not the ones I mentioned.
-- Jim Perrin System Architect - UIT Ft Gordon & US Army Signal Center _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Thanks again JIm...
Snowman
On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 22:45 -0500, Jim Perrin wrote:
On 1/28/06, Sam Drinkard sam@wa4phy.net wrote:
Sorry for the off topic posting, but I'm not a real music person and know little about what software will do what. Without turning this into a big discussion for pro or con, could someone drop a line or 3 just stating the name(s) of some type music players? I'd probably want something that would play CD's and perhaps mp3's. I don't guess there is a "catch-all" like the windows media player that does it all is there?Thanks..
Sure there is.
xmms will play mp3s, wma, ogg, flac, cds and more. It's very simplistic, and a bit like winamp3 on the windows side. (requires xmms-mp3s from dag or other external repository)
Rythmbox is okay, but is really basic.
AmaroK is a KDE media player that is fairly heavy (being a KDE app and all) but it's quite nice, plays video, mp3, and pretty much every other media format. It needs some plugins to operate as well, but has all the trimmings.
I prefer xmms, but I like simplicity, and AmaroK is quite nice for what it is.
---- xmms plays my aac/m4a (iPod) files - something that I have never been able to get AmaroK to do. AmaroK is a music file management system - not just a player.
Craig
you can also try VLC - http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ - which is some kind of media player, knows audio and video formats. You can also try MPlayer which is a Hungarian project and I'm proud of it :) - being a Hungarian - but I prefer the VLC nowdays because it's multiplatform and lots of friends still using OSX or Windows so I need something I can recommend them which is OSS.
bye, Ago
On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 05:21, Deim Ágoston wrote:
you can also try VLC - http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ - which is some kind of media player, knows audio and video formats. You can also try MPlayer which is a Hungarian project and I'm proud of it :) - being a Hungarian - but I prefer the VLC nowdays because it's multiplatform and lots of friends still using OSX or Windows so I need something I can recommend them which is OSS.
You wouldn't guess it from the name, but videolan client (vlc) also has some server capability and can stream media either in multicast form or between 2 computers. For example you can view a dvd on one computer even though the player is on a different one.
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