[linux-audio-user] Less braindead player than xmms ?

[Burkhard Ritter]

On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 06:57:58PM -0500, lanas wrote:
> Not to mention xmms incompatibility with Beryl-like windowing/desktop
> stuff.
> 
> Now, after playing a CD with xmms I want to play some tunes from the
> har drive.  So I open the m3u file and after that xmms redoes all the
> connections to jack, bypassing the jamin connections I made.  And xmms
> makes a lot of connections to the default alsa_pcm device )in this case
> supporting a M-Audio 1010LT).  So I have to unconnect all of them and
> then connect xmms again to jamin.
> 
> Is there a jack compatible ogg/mp3 player out there that does not do
> that ?  Better yet, is there a xine jack plugin ?
> 
> Cheers,
> Al
> 

I am using aqualung[1] for playing music files through jack. I just
checked: it doesn't change the connections when editing the playlist, so
it should be fine for your scenario.

Burkhard


[1] http://aqualung.sourceforge.net/