[arch-general] kaffeine [sigh] is there an alternative that:...

[ludovic coues]

2010/3/30 Xavier Chantry <chantry.xavier at gmail.com>

> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Heiko Baums <lists at baums-on-web.de>
> wrote:
> > Am Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:10:22 +0800
> > schrieb Ian-Xue Li <da.mi.spirit at gmail.com>:
> >
> >> As for MOC, I recommend cmus over MOC because it got more decoder over
> >> different types files.
> >
> > Well, just tried cmus. It's so complicated an unintuitive. If I need to
> > first finish my degree to be able to use a program then there's
> > something wrong with it. If I add a directory to the playlist, there
> > are no tracks listed in the playlist, only the directory, and the
> > tracks are played in random order, there's no progress bar, etc. And to
> > do simple things, you first need to enter complicated vi like
> > commands. I hate vi, btw. And my impression is that the sound quality
> > of MOC is still a bit better.
> >
> > I doubt that one need the other decoders. At least I haven't missed a
> > decoder in MOC.
> >
>
> 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.
>
> By the way, in the main/default mode, you don't see directory, you see
> artist/albums from tags.
>       There are 7 views in cmus.  Press keys 1-7 to change active view.
>       Library view (1)
>
> 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 :)
>

people who doesn't like at all vi(m) will not like this kind of shortcut too
I suppose.

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