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Dotan Cohen wrote: |
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> On 23/10/06, Arnau Bria <arnau@×××××××××.net> wrote: |
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>> On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:08:08 -0400 |
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>> Dave V wrote: |
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>> > Hello, |
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>> Hi, |
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>> > I just read on the gentoo-dev list that xmms is about to be removed, |
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>> > but it's probably the only sound player that I've used. Could someone |
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>> > recommend a good alternative. I'm rather surprised that no one wanted |
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>> > to maintain the packages. |
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>> you should, not should, you MUST use Amarok :-) |
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>> Cheers! |
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> I second that. My search for the ultimate music player has stopped |
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> with Amarok. Absolutely brilliant. Name a feature- lyrics? wikipedia |
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> integration? It's got it. |
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> |
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> Dotan Cohen |
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> |
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> http://rorot.com |
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> http://what-is-what.com/what_is/linux.html |
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Hi, I'm new to the list but have been lurking for a while... so forgive |
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the slightly long post (bits of 'background' included to put things in |
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context) |
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I tried to get on with Amarok - I tried on my Ubuntu install before I |
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discovered Gentoo... thought I'd be bound to get it working with Gentoo |
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but couldn't... and tried Rhythmbox in desperation to have something |
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play music. |
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From what I've seen of Amarok, I'd love it, but I every time I've |
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installed it I've run into the same problems: |
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All our music (about 80 Gb, I think, mainly (but not all) OGG files) is |
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stored on a server, accessed on a mounted Samba share. The share would |
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mount correctly - and I tried mounting it with a variety of permissions |
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set - but I couldn't get Amarok to 'read' the music collection |
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successfully. I read various man/wiki/help pages which were supposed to |
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get it working but I couldn't - and when Amarok bombed out it would take |
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the system with it - things would lock up and I ended up have to reboot |
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(!) and/or have major problems getting sound to work at all (it seemed |
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to come and go, almost without reason). |
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I'm a relative newbie with linux and have only had my gentoo install up |
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and running for about a month now... but I have managed to get most |
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other things sorted by *lots* of reading/Googling. I started off with |
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kde, removed that (despite really giving KDE a really good go, I still |
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wanted to go back to my Gnome comfort zone!) and installed gnome-light, |
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unmasked the ~x86 packages that gnome-light pulled in and upgraded |
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them... and sound works at last. And Rhythmbox works - but I don't like |
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it (never have). I had xmms on my Ubuntu install... and had emerged it |
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(now unmerged) to use with Gentoo... and would love to have a simple, |
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working Amarok... but I haven't got my bravery together to embark on |
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trying again! |
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I can't help thinking the problem lies with my (lack of) understanding |
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of samba - our Squeezebox serves up the music from the samba share |
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beautifully - so I'm not sure what I'm getting wrong in how I mount the |
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share (mounting exactly the same way is fine for Rhythmbox) for Amarok |
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to read. Maybe I'll have another go one day soon! If anyone has any |
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hot tips or pointers that might help, I'd be grateful - I think I'll |
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tear all my hair out if I try to emerge it again and end up with big |
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problems with my system (I so want to avoid a problem that I'll be doing |
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a full system backup before I have a go). |
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I wouldn't vote for rhythmbox. I might try audacious instead. But I'd |
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really like a working amarok! |
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Sarah |
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