Basically, I want a player which will play the contents of an entire folder (including sub-folders), and will shuffle and repeat, whiles supporting as many codecs as possible. What will be my best bet? Cheers, On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 15:03 +0000, Michael Whapples wrote: > Firstly, do you want it for text console or gnome? in gnome there are > players such as gxine (ubuntu has this in its repositries), totem movie > player, etc (RealPlayer 10 is accessible to a level in gnome, if you > want that). In the text console, there is mplayer, trplayer (a text > front end for realplayer 8), cplay. > > Depends what you want from the player, for which is most appropiate. > Mplayer has plenty of codecs (and probably allows playing nearly any > format), but it has so many options that it can be complex to get > started with or for basic use. Cplay is more basic, but simpler for > navigating through lists of tracks. > > From > Michael Whappoles > On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 10:49 +0000, Chris Norman wrote: > > Hi people, > > I remember hearing something on this list about a piece of software for > > linux that worked like winamp (presumably with the same key commands and > > stuff), and am trying to find it. > > > > Any ideas what it is? I've just tried xine but couldn't get it to work, > > I've also tried beep-media-player, but couldn't figure out some of that. > > > > Any ideas appreciated. > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup