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« Thread Started on Mar 16, 2012, 4:51pm » | |
Just a heads up on the only player I have found so far that can compete with foobar for ease of use. http://www.atunes.org/ Has skins and themes quite similar to foobar's setup albeit foo's gui is rock solid whereas this has great control including a tray module (like SharpeShell's media player tray control-rip).
It allows me to show my music folders as they are layed out on disc and also allows me to add my own personal web radios and plays them which I have found many other web enabled players do not.
It has lastfm and podcast support as well as a ton of web radios built in which you can disable. Plus it has lyrics support if your into that. It also can rip a disc and has an eq built in also. It's cross platform and has deb's, zips, jar's and exe installer's. Alas there is only one foobar but it cannot play web streams at all. I believe it's java/mplayer. It definitely should be in the repo.
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« Reply #1 on Mar 25, 2012, 1:58pm » | |
I would like to add that I noticed one major issue with atunes. On multiple occasions the slider which indicates position in a song will reach the end before the song does. I have gone back to foobar & radiotray. The dev version of atunes does not work correctly at all either. When they update it I'll try again.
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« Reply #2 on Mar 25, 2012, 3:30pm » | |
Another notch against Atunes is the fact it depends on just about every package known to man. It looks nice, but I won't even install it on my machine because of its ridiculous dependency list.
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« Reply #3 on Apr 14, 2012, 7:42pm » | |
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« Reply #4 on Apr 17, 2012, 4:35pm » | |
Just tried clementine. Didn't realize you were making a suggestion. I like how it will list your folders but for the cover art you MUST use the library feature. It plays internet streams well, but it would be nice if these programs could figure out how to add a record button for the streams. As it is I have to use vlc which is ok for now.
Thanks for the suggestion Murdock. I think I can stop using foo now.
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Actually atunes has a crossplatform jar installer that runs under jvm. In windows, the installer adds a win_tools folder that contains mplayer, flac, lame and a few other required files. I think I'll use atunes instead of foo or clementine in saline and keep foo for windows only.
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« Reply #5 on Apr 28, 2012, 3:29am » | |
Apr 17, 2012, 4:35pm, debby wrote:Just tried clementine. Didn't realize you were making a suggestion. I like how it will list your folders but for the cover art you MUST use the library feature. It plays internet streams well, but it would be nice if these programs could figure out how to add a record button for the streams. As it is I have to use vlc which is ok for now.
Thanks for the suggestion Murdock. I think I can stop using foo now.
Update:
Actually atunes has a crossplatform jar installer that runs under jvm. In windows, the installer adds a win_tools folder that contains mplayer, flac, lame and a few other required files. I think I'll use atunes instead of foo or clementine in saline and keep foo for windows only. |
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Cool. I really could care less about the "art" thing since when I'm jamming Grand Funk Railroad or Steppenwolf, I'm often on websites where the girls can't seem to afford clothing. 
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« Reply #6 on Apr 28, 2012, 10:16am » | |
Atunes in java is quite fast and when mousing over the 'repository' (folder structure containing the music), instead of as in clementine which shows the album art for each disc and then therefore slows it down considerably, atunes shows the covers only when you mouse over the file listing. Unfortunately atunes uses the first pic and that could be "back" instead of "cover" or "front". Regardless, with hundreds of gigs of music, having a gui which can be customized to suit your taste via theming and layout is nice. Clementine, not so much.
Most of my music has art which to me is as much a part of the music as is the correct tagging and naming of same. I spent at least two months tagging it all (no embedded art whatsoever except for my rolling stones 500 v2  ) and once done it makes a huge difference.
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« Reply #7 on Jun 18, 2012, 5:47pm » | |
where can I get the newest version please?
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« Reply #8 on Jun 20, 2012, 7:22pm » | |
from here:
http://www.atunes.org/?page_id=6
The cross-platform one works best imo.
Currently I still use foobar and not atunes for it's simplicity.
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« Reply #9 on Sept 13, 2012, 10:27am » | |
Anyways, wine is working like crap lately (foobar takes like mega resources) and I found THE perfect audio player which is also portable - DeadBeef. It's lightning fast and shows covers but only as thumbnails. I've tried like ten different players and every %$#@ one has some sort of lame issue or won't work correctly. Just extract and run it.
http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net/
BTW, Please delete debby's acct. I can't log into it no matter what I do and so created a new one under ariel.
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