Is there a simple streaming audio (.pls) player?
Jamon Camisso
jamon.camisso-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
Sun Oct 29 00:37:37 UTC 2006
Walter Dnes wrote:
> Much weeping and gnashing of teeth on the Gentoo forums over the
> dropping of xmms from portage. It's not Gentoo's fault. xmms has been
> abandoned by the upstream maintainer.
>
> I use mpg321 to play music files on my harddrive. I don't need no
> steenkin gui for that. mc is a great file-browser that can run in a
> true text console or an xterm. I have it set up to launch mpg321 when I
> press <ENTER> on an mp3 file.
>
> I have one other need for an audioplayer. I'm a paying subscriber of
> Live365, and I need a simple audio player to launch and play audio
> streams direct off a .pls file. Windows-Media-Player-wannabees like
> amarok need not apply. I've tried "audacious". audacious falls flat on
> its face in this task. The current version (1.1.2-r1) does *NOT*
> support mp3, or streaming mp3. It requires a plugin package. The
> plugin package is keyword masked ~x86. After unmasking the plugin
> package, I find that it requires a higher version of audacious, which is
> also keyword masked ~x86. Etc, etc., etc. Version 1.1.0 still supports
> mp3 directly, so I've package-masked ">media-sound/audacious-1.1.0".
> But wait... there's more... on at least one Live365 station, audacious
> 1.1.0 plays at half speed, and the singer's voice is way down low. xmms
> handles that station fine.
>
> I tried RealPlayer. Unlike xmms and audacious, it can't keep up with
> a 96 kbps audio stream, stuttering and buffering all the time. This is
> on an AMDK8 3000+ with 2 gigs of RAM, running Blackbox, not some
> underpowered machine running a resource-hogging "desktop environment".
What's wrong with BMPx instead of audacious or bmp?
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