It would appear that on Mar 30, Heiko Baums did say:
I don't know if it meets your requirements regarding the playlist, but the best audio player I know is MOC (http://moc.daper.net). It has the best sound quality of every player I know and is controlled by keyboard.
You can set a "global" music directory in its config file and by pressing 'a' it appends the selected file or recursively every music file in the selected directory and its subdirectories to the playlist.
Well I suppose if it's easy to add music files recursively to the playlist. AND if it's just as easy to wipe the old contents, it might work for me.
Pressing 'h' brings the help screen.
That's a nice touch... It would appear that on Mar 30, ludovic coues did say:
have you try mpd ? mpc allow you to lod every file from the mpd's music directory with a single commnd like `mpc findadd Title ""`
No I haven't. But to be honest, While I want keyboard control, I don't really want to deal with remembering a command syntax when I just want to get my music going so I can work to it... It would appear that on Mar 30, Xavier Chantry did say:
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook <jtwdyp@ttlc.net> wrote:
Could somebody recommend another media player I could try that will let me create temporary music lists on the fly by typing the path to a parent dir containing multiple music directories???
I don't know any music player that does not allow that.
The Kaffeine from kde4... <grin>
One that understands keyboard commands for it's functions???
And same here.
It's probably true that most do have some shortcuts, But they're not always obvious. I must confess to being partial to a keyboard accessible pop-up menu like Kaffeine uses where <alt>+F opens the file menu. And <alt>+P lets me at the player commands etc... That way I don't have to memorize the assigned keybindings...
Anyway I would suggest you to keep trying audio players until you find one that suits your need.
Yeah I guess your right. Of course when one doesn't know the names of very many of them, it can be hard to know what to try...
For example here is a list of light one : http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lightweight_Applications#Audio_Players
I might have known Arch would have a wiki for this... <sheepish grin>
The console/curses one are made exclusively for keyboard control.
That's good to know... It would appear that on Mar 30, Ian-Xue Li did say:
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 01:12:15PM +0200, Linas wrote:
If your main problem is to create playlists for a recursive music tree, I guess that this would work with pretty much all players: find /path/to/music > music-list.m3u $PLAYER music-list.m3u One shortcoming of this way is that you might need a expert shell script to update the lists containing the file, plus that filename handling needs some work with shell scripts.
Actually though *_IF_* the $PLAYER doesn't choke on the lines representing each directory itself being included with the list of the music files within it, so that I don't have to edit the resulting .m3u file. Then it looks like updating would be handled by simply letting the command overwrite the old .m3u with the new contents... So I guess it wouldn't require that fancy a shell script. Probably even I could write one...
Opon the original issue, I think any music player with databases would suit the original writers need. For example, exaile.
I'm more interested in the ability to quickly generate a "these are there now" playlist than in trying to keep an existing database up to date...
As for MOC, I recommend cmus over MOC because it got more decoder over different types files.
That might be useful. It would appear that on Mar 30, Xavier Chantry did say:
Heh cmus is probably my preferred player now so I ought to defend it.
Too complicated, seriously ? The only command I ever need is the initial one to add my music directory : # add files, short for ':add ~/music' :a ~/music
After that, all you need is 3 keys : space to expand an artist and view the albums, enter to play what you want, tab to switch between album view and track view if you want a particular track.
99% of the time what I want is to just play the whole list in random order with an easy hot key to skip any I decide, upon hearing, that I'm not in the mood for.
By the way, in the main/default mode, you don't see directory, you see artist/albums from tags.
That would bug me. "tags smags" IF I'm looking at album/artist info what I want to see is the durned directory names I filed the music under... I could care less what the original album names were. Everything I want to know IS in the pathnames...
And these 5 shortcuts can be useful too : x player-play c player-pause v player-stop C toggle continue s toggle shuffle
You cannot pretend you want keyboard controls, and not open the man page to learn the few keys you need :)
True enough, assuming the man page is installed, and is written in such a way as to make it easy to quickly refresh ones memory of the "useful" shortcuts. But I gotta say, Those shortcuts would require rereading the man page most every time I wanted to use them. Unless there are on screen clues to remind me. (That's why I like pop-up menu controls.) It would appear that on Mar 30, Heiko Baums did say:
In MOC: Enter play p pause s stop n next b back S toggle shuffle Somehow much more intuitive, isn't it?
Those, I might be able to remember... <grin> <MUCH quoting from multiple replies snipped> I'm sorry, I didn't mean to start a debate over which music program is better. I guess some people have strongly entrenched preferences. I wonder if that infamous long running vi/emacs holy war started as innocently as a request for suggestions for a good editor... Oh no, tell me I didn't just mention both editor names in the same thread... Whoopsie! <snicker> Seriously though, I thank you, one and all, for the suggestions. -- | --- ___ | <0> <-> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P | ~\___/~ <<jtwdyp@ttlc.net>>