[linux-audio-user] [ANN] Aqualung, a new music player for GNU/Linux

[Tom Szilagyi]

On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 02:58:12PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote:
> Tom Szilagyi wrote:
> ...
> >In addition to all this, Aqualung comes with a Music Store that is an
> >XML-based music database, capable of storing various metadata about
> >music on your computer (including, but not limited to, the names of
> >artists, and the titles of records and tracks). This is much more
> >efficient than the all-in-one Winamp/XMMS playlist.
> 
>   does it allow to edit mp3 info (tags)? (something close to easytag in 
> nature, maybe not that comlex)
> 

Not yet. It has its own system based on XML, independent of audio
files.  It may allow importing mp3 tag data in the future. But the
system is not a one-for-one parallelism of what mp3 tags offer, so
it's not trivial.

>   I'm looking for some player with reasonable playlist management (i.e. 
> not playlist based like xmms:-) something like what freeamp does (I like 
> freeamp interface but it was too unstable every time I tried to use it 
> for a longer period).

Go ahead and see if it's good for you :)


Tom