Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4253 mails)

[Jonathan Wilson <jw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> >>> What is the alternative to xmms?  As my disk collapsed I was intending
> >>> installing 10.3 asap; just wondering what else will be lost.
> >
> > Boy, there sure are a lot of media players for Linux. I use Amarok and
> > Banshee. Has anyone ever done a big comparison of the various ones?
>
> Probably not recently - I also like kaffeine (kde front end to xine)

I'm a musician and have used xmms for years for practice (I play along with 
various recordings).

Crazy as it sounds, I actually use Amarox for media management (I like it, 
it's a cross between iTunes (a little too rigid) and xmms playlists (a little 
too loose). I then drag and drop the files I want to practice with into xmms. 

The one and only reason for that, is, that with xmms I can use the keyboard 
to "seek" forward and backwards while the song is playing. So if I have to 
practice a small difficult section of a song I can just tap the left-arrow 
key and hear it again. I can't do that in Amarok, even in the little player 
window, which is disappointing.

However, this thread got me to looking for a replacement, and I've 
found "KPlayer" which fills that need for me. So I guess I just moved from 
xmms to KPlayer :-)


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