On Mon Feb 12, 2007 at 03:21:14PM -0600, Victor Roetman wrote: > Carlo Capocasa wrote: > > You could try driving Alsaplayer through your own left ear. > > Or you could try driving Alsaplayer through both ears in stereo! > > Still, I don't think Alsaplayer would be what I want to manage a whole > collection of songs. I keep coming back to xmms because it's FAST and > just works (usually), but it's missing a lot. I wish amarok and > rhythmbox had jack backends. amarok's default audio playback library, Xine, has a jack sink. same story with rhythmbox and gstreamer. neither are as CPU efficient and reliable as mplayer or xmms.. im convinced the biggest CPU suck in amarok is the pulsating current playing item, and i cant figure out how to turn that off.. > I'd even be happy with an esd jack > backend. But slowly things seem to be coming around. >
