It would appear that on Mar 30, Heiko Baums did say: > I don't know if it meets your requirements regarding the playlist, but > the best audio player I know is MOC (http://moc.daper.net). It has the > best sound quality of every player I know and is controlled by keyboard. > > You can set a "global" music directory in its config file and by > pressing 'a' it appends the selected file or recursively every music > file in the selected directory and its subdirectories to the playlist. Well I suppose if it's easy to add music files recursively to the playlist. AND if it's just as easy to wipe the old contents, it might work for me. > Pressing 'h' brings the help screen. That's a nice touch... It would appear that on Mar 30, ludovic coues did say: > have you try mpd ? > mpc allow you to lod every file from the mpd's music directory with a single > commnd like `mpc findadd Title ""` No I haven't. But to be honest, While I want keyboard control, I don't really want to deal with remembering a command syntax when I just want to get my music going so I can work to it... It would appear that on Mar 30, Xavier Chantry did say: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook <jtwdyp@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Could somebody recommend another media player I could try that will let me > > create temporary music lists on the fly by typing the path to a parent > > dir containing multiple music directories??? > > > > I don't know any music player that does not allow that. The Kaffeine from kde4... <grin> > > One that understands keyboard commands for it's functions??? > > > > And same here. It's probably true that most do have some shortcuts, But they're not always obvious. I must confess to being partial to a keyboard accessible pop-up menu like Kaffeine uses where <alt>+F opens the file menu. And <alt>+P lets me at the player commands etc... That way I don't have to memorize the assigned keybindings... > Anyway I would suggest you to keep trying audio players until you find > one that suits your need. Yeah I guess your right. Of course when one doesn't know the names of very many of them, it can be hard to know what to try... > For example here is a list of light one : > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lightweight_Applications#Audio_Players I might have known Arch would have a wiki for this... <sheepish grin> > The console/curses one are made exclusively for keyboard control. That's good to know... It would appear that on Mar 30, Ian-Xue Li did say: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 01:12:15PM +0200, Linas wrote: > > If your main problem is to create playlists for a recursive music tree, > > I guess that > > this would work with pretty much all players: > > find /path/to/music > music-list.m3u > > $PLAYER music-list.m3u > One shortcoming of this way is that you might need a expert shell script > to update the lists containing the file, plus that filename handling > needs some work with shell scripts. Actually though *_IF_* the $PLAYER doesn't choke on the lines representing each directory itself being included with the list of the music files within it, so that I don't have to edit the resulting .m3u file. Then it looks like updating would be handled by simply letting the command overwrite the old .m3u with the new contents... So I guess it wouldn't require that fancy a shell script. Probably even I could write one... > Opon the original issue, I think any music player with databases would > suit the original writers need. For example, exaile. I'm more interested in the ability to quickly generate a "these are there now" playlist than in trying to keep an existing database up to date... > As for MOC, I recommend cmus over MOC because it got more decoder over > different types files. That might be useful. It would appear that on Mar 30, Xavier Chantry did say: > Heh cmus is probably my preferred player now so I ought to defend it. > > Too complicated, seriously ? The only command I ever need is the > initial one to add my music directory : > # add files, short for ':add ~/music' > :a ~/music > > After that, all you need is 3 keys : space to expand an artist and > view the albums, enter to play what you want, tab to switch between > album view and track view if you want a particular track. 99% of the time what I want is to just play the whole list in random order with an easy hot key to skip any I decide, upon hearing, that I'm not in the mood for. > By the way, in the main/default mode, you don't see directory, you see > artist/albums from tags. That would bug me. "tags smags" IF I'm looking at album/artist info what I want to see is the durned directory names I filed the music under... I could care less what the original album names were. Everything I want to know IS in the pathnames... > And these 5 shortcuts can be useful too : > x player-play > c player-pause > v player-stop > C toggle continue > s toggle shuffle > > You cannot pretend you want keyboard controls, and not open the man > page to learn the few keys you need :) True enough, assuming the man page is installed, and is written in such a way as to make it easy to quickly refresh ones memory of the "useful" shortcuts. But I gotta say, Those shortcuts would require rereading the man page most every time I wanted to use them. Unless there are on screen clues to remind me. (That's why I like pop-up menu controls.) It would appear that on Mar 30, Heiko Baums did say: > In MOC: > Enter play > p pause > s stop > n next > b back > S toggle shuffle > Somehow much more intuitive, isn't it? Those, I might be able to remember... <grin> <MUCH quoting from multiple replies snipped> I'm sorry, I didn't mean to start a debate over which music program is better. I guess some people have strongly entrenched preferences. I wonder if that infamous long running vi/emacs holy war started as innocently as a request for suggestions for a good editor... Oh no, tell me I didn't just mention both editor names in the same thread... Whoopsie! <snicker> Seriously though, I thank you, one and all, for the suggestions. -- | --- ___ | <0> <-> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P | ~\___/~ <<jtwdyp@xxxxxxxx>>
