Linux for your taste (sorry Naw :D) (15 Viewers)

[JCK]

Here's a question, why would you need a media library when you have your file browser right there in the player?

 

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[V]

Media Libraries are useful, especially when you have a lot of tracks. You can sort it by Artist/Genre/Album, etc., creating playlists is easier, finding a particular song is quicker by using quick search... Finding your way around in browser mode is very limiting IMO, even when you have a neatly organised music collection.

 

[JCK]

I always had this problem when I was on Windows as I have a lot of tracks and browsing and finding my way should be either down in Windows Explorer or the player's media library. I found AmaroK's built in file browser the solution to my problem as I organise my music according to the way I feel most comfortable with. Media libraries are not that way. But this is something personal.

I haven't tried AmaroK's media library so I cannot say if it slow or not.

 

[V]

That's your preference, though in Foobar you can make a file browser, media library, whatever suits you. It's really the linux of audio players.

 

[JCK]

I'll install it, I am all for trying programs. I have Songbird installed but I used it only for one day.

 

[Rami]

I have nVidia but that is definetly good news.


BTW, few days ago I started messing around with Foobar2K and I think it's safe to say it beats THE SHIT out of amaroK and everything else! (don't kill me Jack)

It's definetly the linux of audio players and it's ironic there isn't a linux version for it... It's fast as hell, even with a huge media library. It takes a while to configure it, there's a pretty big learning curve, again just like with linux. There isn't a thing you can't configure in it, it's so damn customazible it's breathtaking.

Now just to get it working in Wine properly.

If you think that your only problem is Jack then you got another thing coming!! :ferocious:

 

[Martin]

Those are nice screenshots, V, but who wants to spend their life coding on a music player (apart from the amarok devs)? It's like that with everything in linux, some people love fvwm cause you can hack it to death (the settings, or even the code if you want to), but what for? You switch to another machine and you got plain fvwm which is butt ugly.

Amarok is fantastic because its default is fantastic. If what you showed of foobar2k were the default, it'd be great (but of course very limited with the windows dependency ).

 

[JCK]

What is fvwm?

 

[Martin]

Do you still ask questions and google simultaneously?

 

[JCK]

You know I usually do, but I didn't this time as I am doing lots of other things at the same time.

 

[V]

Those are nice screenshots, V, but who wants to spend their life coding on a music player (apart from the amarok devs)? It's like that with everything in linux, some people love fvwm cause you can hack it to death (the settings, or even the code if you want to), but what for? You switch to another machine and you got plain fvwm which is butt ugly.

Amarok is fantastic because its default is fantastic. If what you showed of foobar2k were the default, it'd be great (but of course very limited with the windows dependency ).

That's true, exactly why I like Opera. But...TBH when you set it up the way you like it, just back up the whole folder make a fresh install of the same version on some other PC and a simple copy paste gives you your set up. Foobar is a audio-holic's player, at least that's the word on the street , I usually would never have bothered with it but than I saw what can be done with it and I couldn't resist. Much the same reason I gave linux a go, I like new stuff.

But damn, I simply can't believe this is not linux software, it's like the poster boy for linux.


@ Jack, you can try WINE-ing it if you want but from what I've read on winehq it's not exactly working properly, lots of options don't work so it's sort of pointless. Shame really, I hope someone smart ports it to linx.

 

[Martin]

That's true, exactly why I like Opera. But...TBH when you set it up the way you like it, just back up the whole folder make a fresh install of the same version on some other PC and a simple copy paste gives you your set up. Foobar is a audio-holic's player, at least that's the word on the street , I usually would never have bothered with it but than I saw what can be done with it and I couldn't resist. Much the same reason I gave linux a go, I like new stuff.

I have no desire to hack a media player though, it's supposed to be ready out of the box imo. There are some things you want to be able to change, the are those that you don't want to.

 

[V]

I agree but curiousity got the best of me. Just thought I'd let you guys know there's some light in "the dark side".

*puts flame coat on*

 

[Martin]

You shouldn't get mixed up with windows software anyway

 

[V]

LOL. I started hating this dual-booting shit, it's a home PC and everyone wants Windows, they don't want to bother with linux so I'm really forced to use it. It's such a pain in the boot to re-boot from Windows to Linux every day..Not to mention torrenting, I just can't be arsed to reload each and every torrent twice, to linux and windows, to linux and windows.

 

[Martin]

Here's what you do. Go back a few pages, you'll find Rami's story about selling linux to his little brother. What your family needs is some good old indoctrination :cool2:

 

[V]

Don't think I didn't try. You know I'd understand if I had gamers in the family or something, anything which would make them really need Windows. All they do is E-Mail and surf the Web, they are completelly computer-illeterate. It took me days to explain to my Dad that Opera is the same as IE just better, the concept of tabbed browsing was mind bobbling.

Once I purposelly left Ubuntu as the default option in GRUB and decided to see how it goes. I set up a nice Opera icon labeled "Internet" and a Thunderbird icon labeled "E-Mail" on the desktop. I said just write your name when it starts and enter 1234 as the password, you'll see it's practically the same. So I went to work and i got a call from by brother saying what's this crap, stop screwing with this PC, bla, bla, bla. I seemed I have forgot to set the proper POP3 settings in Thunderbird for his Gmail and he was unable to send mail. That's that, he won't even hear of it anymore, stubborn as an ox.

But when I think about it, if I had only kept my mouth shut and never told them that's actually a different OS, I'm pretty sure I could have sold it as The New Windows, Vista.

 

[Martin]

But when I think about it, if I had only kept my mouth shut and never told them that's actually a different OS, I'm pretty sure I could have sold it as The New Windows, Vista.

Of course, lots of people have done experiments showing that users don't even notice anything different, you just gotta make it look the same.

 

[Chxta]

Don't think I didn't try. You know I'd understand if I had gamers in the family or something, anything which would make them really need Windows. All they do is E-Mail and surf the Web, they are completelly computer-illeterate. It took me days to explain to my Dad that Opera is the same as IE just better, the concept of tabbed browsing was mind bobbling.

Once I purposelly left Ubuntu as the default option in GRUB and decided to see how it goes. I set up a nice Opera icon labeled "Internet" and a Thunderbird icon labeled "E-Mail" on the desktop. I said just write your name when it starts and enter 1234 as the password, you'll see it's practically the same. So I went to work and i got a call from by brother saying what's this crap, stop screwing with this PC, bla, bla, bla. I seemed I have forgot to set the proper POP3 settings in Thunderbird for his Gmail and he was unable to send mail. That's that, he won't even hear of it anymore, stubborn as an ox.

But when I think about it, if I had only kept my mouth shut and never told them that's actually a different OS, I'm pretty sure I could have sold it as The New Windows, Vista.

Install Linux alone (or set it as default in GRUB), use KDE as your Window Manager, then customise it thoroughly. I used it to channel some fellows away from Window$. Worked like a charm.

 

[Rami]

Or use xpde.