[Mageia-discuss] Music player

[Anne Wilson]

On 17/06/12 19:35, Dimitrios Glentadakis wrote:
> Le 17 juin 2012 17:59, "Anne Wilson" <annew at kde.org> a écrit :
>> 
> On 15/06/12 16:00, Dimitrios Glentadakis wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 2012/6/15 Diego Bello <dbello at gmail.com
>>>> <mailto:dbello at gmail.com>>
>>>> 
>>>> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Gary Montalbine 
>>>> <gmontalbine at cox.net <mailto:gmontalbine at cox.net>> wrote:
>>>>> I was using Amarok as a player for my music files. After
>>>>> an upgrade to Mageia2 it would stop at each song in the
>>>>> folder. Had to
>>>> continually restart
>>>>> each song. Found Guayadeque in the repositories. Works
>>>>> great. Thanks developers. Gary
>>>> 
>>>> The same happens to me but only with ogg songs. With mp3 I
>>>> have no problems at all. If the same happens to you, let's
>>>> report a bug.
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> 
>>>> -- Diego Bello Carreño
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> i think that amarok needs xine as phonon backend
>>>> 
>>>> Clementine uses gstreamer , and can benefits crossfade
>>>> between songs for that (xine does nt support any more
>>>> crossfade)
> 
> I think you are mistaken about amarok's backend.  As far as I
> know, xine is the least likely to work.  Whether gstreamer or vlc
> backend is best seems to depend on your hardware.  On one of my
> installations gstreamer works best, on another vlc works best.  It
> really seems to be a case of trial and error.
> 
> Anne
> 
> I dont know for today, as i dont use any more Amarok since
> Clementine has be released. I remember that to have amarok working
> with mp3 we needed to install the phonon-xine backend. And after
> this : https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=178184 i said bye bye
> to amarok for the great clementine.
> 
To be honest I haven't used Amarok for some time.  I never really
liked it, and like you I find Clementine much more to my taste.

Anne
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