Gentoo Archives: gentoo-desktop

From: Luis Ortiz <wichos@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop] CD player recommendations ??
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 02:07:22
Message-Id: 45A44959.7060503@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-desktop] CD player recommendations ?? by Lindsay Haisley
1 Lindsay Haisley wrote:
2 > It doesn't play nice with CDs - just apparently with audio and video files.
3 > And it doesn't look as if it knows anything about CDDB. Totem works better
4 > than Gmplayer.
5 >
6 >> On 1/9/07, Lindsay Haisley <fmouse-gentoo@×××.com> wrote:
7 >>> I'm looking for a decent Gnome-compatible GUI CD player to replace xmcd,
8 >>> of
9 >>> which I was quite fond, but the code is apparently no longer maintained
10 >>> and
11 >>> it's no longer in Gentoo. Fixing the code and compiling it manually is a
12 >>> real
13 >>> bear! I'm looking for something fairly flexible and which will access the
14 >>> CDDB
15 >>> databases of my choice.
16
17 May be you'll like grip (media-sound/grip), I've used it and it's pretty simple.
18 You can specify up to 2 CDDB databases, rip CDs, and encode them to mp3, ogg,
19 and others. I don't recall if it has many dependencies, though.
20
21 -Luis
22 --
23 gentoo-desktop@g.o mailing list

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-desktop] CD player recommendations ?? Lindsay Haisley <fmouse-gentoo@×××.com>