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By: Bring out the rack! « Motho ke motho ka botho

Bring out the rack! « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 13:09:51 +0000

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By: ErSandro

ErSandro — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 20:24:42 +0000

I tried a lot of music players and my final choice is… mplayer

I’ve already installed it for video playback (so no necessity for new application) and it does not manage your library (basically you simply navigate the filesyste). Just cd to the directory containing the music files you want to hear and give “mplayer *” (press enter to skip to the next song).

You can also create simple playlist text files (one line, one song) and pass them to mplayer with the option -playlist.

It’s really low on resources (better than cmus, mpd or moc on my system).

Cheers.

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 23:46:07 +0000

I’ve run into a few problems with mocp, at very low speeds.

http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/01/22/sound-at-120mhz-the-good-the-bad/

By: cl4ssic4l

cl4ssic4l — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 10:37:44 +0000

what about moc ? http://moc.daper.net/

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 22:53:30 +0000

That’s fantastic; don’t change a thing! If it’s working for you and you’re satisfied with it, keep using it. Cheers!

By: helf

helf — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 17:18:31 +0000

Thats a pretty cool app. I’ll have to give it a try. I have to say, tho, my old faithful laptop is a NEC Versa P/75 with a 75mhz non-mmx pentium 1 cpu and 40mb of ram and I run windows 95 on it (remarkably stable, lol) with utorrent running quite a few torrents off my 4gb cf card via a pcmcia adapter, an IRC client, several SSH2 sessions via PuTTY, AIM, OffByOne Webbrowser with several tabs, Notepad+ with multiple documents (not notepad++, different app) and I can play my mp3s off the same CF card with no stuttering or anything via a program called winplay3. Oh, and my internet connection is had via an ORiNOCO Silver pcmcia wifi b card :p Its really rather impressive. I have 2-8mb of free ram and I use between 10-30mb of swap at any given moment. Its one of the only machines I still run windows on. I tried various linux distros and none of them handled everything I wanted to do as smoothly at once as Windows 95 somehow does on this old laptop. I’ve never even had it BSOD once, its bizarre…

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Thu, 23 Dec 2010 21:59:30 +0000

[...] One pleasant surprise, for 2010 It’s cmus, just to break the suspense. I first tried it almost exactly a year ago, and dismissed it for personal use just because I don’t really care for applications that “manage” my music. [...]