Jim Perrin wrote: >On 1/28/06, Sam Drinkard <sam at 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. > > >-- > 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 > > > >