Jim Perrin wrote:
>On 1/28/06, Sam Drinkard <sam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> 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?
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>> Thanks..
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>Sure there is.
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>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)
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>Rythmbox is okay, but is really basic.
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>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.
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>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
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