{"id":273,"date":"2008-02-02T12:56:44","date_gmt":"2008-02-02T11:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2008\/02\/02\/file-based-music-players-going-extinct\/"},"modified":"2008-02-02T12:57:17","modified_gmt":"2008-02-02T11:57:17","slug":"file-based-music-players-going-extinct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2008\/02\/02\/file-based-music-players-going-extinct\/","title":{"rendered":"File Based Music Players Going Extinct?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ok, I have a range of various hardware players that run Rockbox<\/a> that can play all the music I have in my stored collection. But when I’m in front of my Linux box I prefer using the computer to play the music,\"my<\/a> not only because then I can select from all my music (that don’t fit on most of my players) and I have quick and easy access to changing the volume or skipping to the next song etc.<\/p>\n

Here’s the thing: I use xmms<\/a> for this (and I want to mention explictly that I don’t mean xmms2<\/a>). I know this will make most of you reading this go what?<\/em> and then suggest a billion other players. I know xmms is pretty much abandoned developer-wise and it doesn’t do gapless playback and has all sort of other drawbacks (including the silly winamp<\/a>-mimicing GUI). I’ve seen that it’s even been discussed to get dumped from the debian packages (although people similar-minded to me spoke up and prevented this).<\/p>\n

\"xmms<\/a>I want a simple player with a GUI that can play songs from a mere directory. I want to point out a root dir and it could play all songs in there recursively. I’ve tried several different players over time, but I always go back to this simple xmms one simply for the reason that all the new and fancy players seem to be so focused on getting the music into a database and then arranging and viewing it all based on their tags and what not. I really really don’t want no database or anything, I just want my player to play everything in the dir I ask it to. And I want it to be available in a debian package preferably.<\/p>\n

Any recommendations?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ok, I have a range of various hardware players that run Rockbox that can play all the music I have in my stored collection. But when I’m in front of my Linux box I prefer using the computer to play the music, not only because then I can select from all my music (that don’t … Continue reading File Based Music Players Going Extinct?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,3],"tags":[421,416,58,57],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-rockbox","tag-linux","tag-rockbox","tag-sound-on-linux","tag-xmms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}