[LAU] best FLAC player?

david gnome at hawaii.rr.com
Fri Nov 20 02:46:14 EST 2009


You know what's weird? Mplayer plays FLAC files just fine here, whether 
from a playlist or all by itself. Of course, so does Kaffeine.

FWIW, it reports the length of MP3 files wrong, too - it reports one of 
my own recordings at 5m08s but the song only runs 2m22s ...

Aaron L. wrote:

> You know what's weird?
> 
> Every player I've tried so far (Songbird, Amarok, MPlayer, Aqualung) 
> reads the FLAC file's length incorrectly.
> 
> Why is this?
> 
> I'm willing to bet this could be part of the reason that all the players 
> I've tried cannot reliable play a FLAC playlist.
> 
> Hmmmmm.
> 
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Aaron L. wrote:
> 
>     You know what's weird?
> 
>     Every player I've tried so far (Songbird, Amarok, MPlayer, Aqualung)
>     reads the FLAC file's length incorrectly.
> 
>     Why is this?
> 
>     I'm willing to bet this could be part of the reason that all the
>     players I've tried cannot reliable play a FLAC playlist.
> 
>     Hmmmmm.
> 
> 
>     On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 6:22 AM, Sean Corbett
>     <seanbutnotheard at gmail.com <mailto:seanbutnotheard at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>         Ah, the usual Linux music player run-around... Lately I've found
>         myself enjoying the simplicity of MOC (http://moc.daper.net/).  It
>         automatically uses Jack if it's running, and if not goes
>         directly for
>         ALSA.  It's terminal/curses based, very simple and lightweight
>         with a
>         Midnight-Commander-like interface.  Being able to ssh to it without
>         X-forwarding is nice.


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David
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