On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 23:13:26 +0200 Jeremy Jongepier <jeremy(a)autostatic.com> wrote: I think Audacious (with the extra plugins) can do most of that. I have it confgured for 'tinyplayer'. It has quite a lot of the 'toys' but fortunately they can all be turned off ... permanently :) -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.

On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 23:23:36 +0200 Jeremy Jongepier <jeremy(a)autostatic.com> wrote: Yes, I know it's had issues in the past, but the current version from debian (squeeze) seems very stable. It will auto-connect on start-up, but never objects when I gently prise it's fingers off with qjackctl, and is quite happy to be re-routed through any other jack kit such as guitar effects plugins :D Don't know it it handles multichannel files (I don't have any myself). -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.

On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 11:32:29AM +0200, Björn Lindig wrote: No CDDA as far as I can see. And that's in fact rather essential. Normal sound files including multichannel are handled by my own player. No mp3 so far, maybe I'll add it. But I need something to plays CDs when 'out of office'. Every now and then someone asks me for a CD after a recording. Burning it is no problem, checking the result is. Ciao, -- FA There are three of them, and Alleline.

On Sunday 17 October 2010 13:23:37 fons(a)kokkinizita.net wrote: For checking the results I would say an external cd-player is better. Otherwise you probably only know that the drive that burnt them is able to read them:-) Other than that: mplayer does what you want, it plays mp3/ogg/flac/wav/you_name_it, cdda and also does multichannel. I successfully used it to play ambisonics files within jack. While it normally does auto- connect to the first hardware-outputs, it can be told to connect to any other jack-client or to none at all... Have fun, Arnold

Excerpts from fons's message of 2010-10-17 15:53:22 +0200: One benefit of aqualung is that it doesn't 'reconnect'. It's simply writing zeroes when paused, which seems to be necessary in case of jack. May I ask how you burn CDs? I burned my last couple of discs using cdrdao, but writing TOC files and remembering funky CLI options isn't exactly the easiest option. Nice GUI burning programs like k3b are KDE dependent. There are loads of programs supposed to make it easier, but in my experience most are fairly buggy or lacking important features. Philipp

On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 19:27:44 +0200 Philipp Überbacher <hollunder(a)lavabit.com> wrote: Hi, you may want to have a look at Graveman. In many cases, for lightweight software, a good starting point is: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lightweight_Software renato

On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 08:36:54PM +0200, Arnold Krille wrote: Almost nothing is needed. Maybe. It's not meant as an 'entertainment' player - no playlists etc. - more as a sound engineer's tool. Target audience near to the empty set. Ciao, -- FA There are three of them, and Alleline.

cd to /music or so alias pl='find -L "`pwd`" -iregex ".*.flac" -o -iregex ".*.aif" -o -iregex ".*.wav" -o -iregex ".*.mp3" -o -iregex ".*.m4a"|sort> .pls' 'pl' to generate the playlist (no id3 scanning so its fast) 'mp' to play everything, 'ma keyword' to play a grep 'ms keyword' to play it in order instead of shuffle alias m=mplayer mpl() { m -loop 0 -shuffle -playlist $*;} mpo() { m -playlist $*;} alias mp='mpl .pls' ma() { grep -i "$*" .pls > .f && mpl .f;} ms() { grep -i "$*" .pls > .f && mpo .f;} aditionally some aliases for genres: alias dub='ma "\(tubby\|scientist\|rac/\|rks/\|jah/\|dub\)"' alias 313='ma "\(dan.*\(curtin\|bell\)\|chicago\|r_and_s\|metroplex\|kms\|peacefrog\|modell\|deepchord\|acid\|titonton\|tejada\|morgan\|dbx\|moody\|parrish\|ranelin\|red.planet\|martian\|dj.\(assault\|godfather\|bone\)\|terrence\|mark.williams\|suburban\|detroit\|313\)"' for streams a file ~/.ra like # MIT http://headphones.mit.edu:8000/ # Energy mms://energylive.no-ip.info/Gerlens # BC http://amber.streamguys.com:4860/ # BelMizik http://38.96.148.86:80/belmizikboston # HRB http://hrbinc-hi.streamguys.net # RadioUn http://zafemradio.com:9002 # Datz Hitz http://208.64.160.43:8004/ etc alias ra='mplayer -loop 0 -playlist ~/.ra' alias ras='mplayer -loop 0 -shuffle -playlist ~/.ra' or i use a webkit based browser for GUI playback http://blog.whats-your.name/post/2010/10/11/%E2%80%83

On 10/18/2010 06:51 PM, M Watts wrote: It's pretty sad to reply to your own post, but there's an option to stop vlc autoconnecting to jack via Preferences > Advanced > Audio > Output modules.