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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 05:07:17
Message-Id: 5bdc1c8b0610262203h43c7aa43p1ac362d7b13bf143@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] xmms alternative by "Hemmann
1 On 10/26/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de> wrote:
2 > On Friday 27 October 2006 06:00, Walter Dnes wrote:
3 > > > > f) it has no good alternative :-(
4 > > >
5 > > > it has. amarok, alsaplayer, xine....
6 > >
7 > > [m3000][root][~] emerge --ask alsaplayer
8 > >
9 > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
10 > >
11 > > Calculating dependencies
12 > > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "alsaplayer".
13 > >
14 > > OK guys, where is alsaplayer hiding?
15 >
16 > seems it is gone too. Too bad. It was nice - could play mp3 forward AND
17 > backward...
18
19 It hasn't been supported for a long time. That said there is a new
20 maintainer who just took it over last week so don't give up totally on
21 alsaplayer. It was good for its day.
22
23 Again, I mentioned this before, but if your interest is file based
24 playback - no CDs - no streaming media - then there is hardly anything
25 better than Aqualung. It's in the proaudio overlay - both the release
26 versions and a CVS ebuild also.
27
28 - Mark
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