mpg321 is a command-line mp3 player.

Why & when to use it?
* On old computers
* If your GUI stops working and you need some music while you are solving the problem
* Play music from your server
* Learn command line and practice it
* For fun

How to install it on Ubuntu?:
Open the Terminal (Applications → Accessories → Terminal) and type the following command:

Key in Y and press Enter when you’re asked to install other required packages.

How to use?
Access the help menu:
Open the Terminal (Applications → Accessories → Terminal) and type the following command:

You will get a list of codes which you can use with mpg321.

--verbose or -v Increase verbosity
--quiet or -q Quiet mode (no title or boilerplate)
--gain N or -g N Set gain (audio volume) to N (0-100)
--skip N or -k N Skip N frames into the file
--verbose or -v Be more verbose in playing files
-o dt Set output devicetype to dt
[esd,alsa(09),arts,sun,oss]
--audiodevice N or -a N Use N for audio-out
--stdout or -s Use stdout for audio-out
--au N Use au file N for output
--cdr N Use wave file N for output
--wav N or -w N Use wave file N for output
--test or -t Test only; do no audio output
--list N or -@ N Use playlist N as list of MP3 files
--random or -Z Play files randomly until interrupted
--shuffle or -z Shuffle list of files before playing
-R Use remote control interface
--aggressive Try to get higher priority
--help or --longhelp Print this help screen
--version or -V Print version information


Example:

This code allows you to play a song without any details.

This code allows you to play a song with information of the file.

Of course it would be ridiculous to play music one by one file so we have to create playlists:

Open the Terminal (Applications → Accessories → Terminal) and type the following command:

(Find the location of your mp3 files by the command dir, cd, and cd...)
dir : Shows a list of all the files available in that directory
cd folder: Goes to folder directory (Replace folder with the name of a folder that you want to access)
cd.. Goes to previous directory

Example: Your music is located in /home/yourusername/Music so you should type cd /home/yourusername/Music

Then, create a playlist of all songs in this folder:

or create a playlist based on artist(Example abz)

*Tips: Replace abz with the artist name

To play the playlist:

Play it randomly:
*Little shuffle mode (Plays every file once in a random order)

*Big shuffle mode (Plays a random file and then plays another random file. mpg321 will go on until you stop it.)

Resources:
Command Line Warriors
Linux Dev Center

Its alternatives:
1. Amarok (If you’re using KDE/Kubuntu as it suites the theme and environment)
2. Songbird – My favourite, read the review.
3. Audacious – Lightweight and Winamp like, read the review.
4. Rhythmbox – It comes pre-installed on Ubuntu
5. Listen Audio Player
6. Exaile – Music Player for GTK+
7. Banshee – Play music and videos. Sync your ipod and G1.
8. orpheus – another Command-Line Interface(CLI) audio player

Audacious:
* Lightweight & Simple
* Multiple audio support
* Old Winamp alike
* Shorcuts similar as Winamp
* Streaming support & more
* Last.fm Scrobbling

To install it on Ubuntu:
open the Terminal (Applications → Accessories → Terminal) and type the following command:

Key in Y and press Enter when you’re asked to install other required packages.

Its alternatives:
1. Amarok (If you’re using KDE/Kubuntu as it suites the theme and environment)
2. Songbird – My favourite, read the review.
3. Rhythmbox – It comes pre-installed on Ubuntu
4. Listen Audio Player
5. Exaile – Music Player for GTK+
6. Banshee – Play music and videos. Sync your ipod and G1.
7. mpg321 – a Command-Line Interface(CLI) audio player. Read the review.
8. orpheus – another Command-Line Interface(CLI) audio player

Impazzite al ricordo di quelle belle colonne sonore che hanno accompagnato le ore di gioco della vostra infanzia? Rivolete evocare i suoni di Zelda o di Golden Axe ai tempi in cui 5.1 e dolby digital surround erano parole assolutamente sconosciute?

Golden Axe

Allora non potete perdervi Kohina, la web-radio che trasmette 24 ore su 24 musica di video giochi old school campionati direttamente da macchine come il C64, l’Amiga, il Sega Mega Drive e molte altre console e pc dell’epoca…

Vi ho incuriosito vero? Bene!

Per ascoltare Kohina ci sono due possibilità:

• Direttamente dal browser (necessario Java abilitato)
• Nel proprio player multimediale (in grado di scaricare streaming online)

Per ascoltare Kohina direttamente dal browser basta cliccare su questo link, dopo essersi accertati di avere Java abilitato.

Per ascoltare lo stream riprodotto dal proprio player multimediale (Amarok, Exaile, Rhythmbox, Windows Media Player,…) basta scaricare uno degli stream presenti nel sito di Kohina (scegliete fra quelli a 64bit se la vostra connessione è lenta, uno degli gli altri altrimenti) e aprire il file playlist .m3u scaricato con il proprio player.

Se doveste avere problemi non esitate a commentare, e non mi resta che augurarvi buon ascolto!

Maniac Mansion

既然是exaile-cn，就不扯蹩脚的英语了。

前天和Exaile-cn的作者进行了一些沟通，现在DoubanCovers插件已经合并到Exaile-CN项目里了。Exaile-CN为Exaile提供符合中文用户习惯的一系列插件，包括歌词插件、迷你模式等。

As exaile-cn has not been adapted to exaile 0.3, the plugin will not be packaged into public release at once. if you use svn, you can checkout the plugin from branch:
svn checkout http://exaile-cn.googlecode.com/svn/branches/0.3/

For a ready to use package, download from here as mentioned before:
http://bitbucket.org/sunng/exailedoubancovers/downloads/

OSD Lyrics è un nuovo progetto in launchpad che permette la visualizzazione del testo della canzone ascoltata direttamente nella scrivania, una specie di karaoke che fa scorrere il testo man mano che il brano musicale viene eseguito

Per l’installazione basta aggiungere i repository launchpad del progetto, quindi eseguiamo in un terminale il comando:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

(su kubuntu sostituite gedit con kate) e nella finestra di testo che si apre aggiungiamo alla fine i repository:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/osd-lyrics/ppa/ubuntu karmic main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/osd-lyrics/ppa/ubuntu karmic main

salvate il documento e sempre al terminale aggiungiamo la key pgp per l’accesso:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:osd-lyrics/ppa

lasciamo lavorare il terminale e una volta importata la chiave aggiorniamo il sistema e installiamo il programma:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install osdlyrics

quando ha finito il terminale chiudiamolo.

Il programma si trova su Applicazioni>>Audio e Video e una volta lanciato si posiziona sulla  tray ed è possibile configurarlo in vari modi. Per il momento dispone di due motori di ricerca canzoni(sogou e quianquian) ma altri ne verranno implementati nel futuro e supporta i seguenty player:

Amarok 1.4(con uso cpu elevato)

Amarok 2.0

Banshee

Audacious

Exaile

Rhythmbox

Ubuntu nelle sue diverse varianti (Kubuntu e Xubuntu le più note) è senza dubbio la distribuzione GNU/Linux che ha fatto più proseliti, soprattutto tra i newbie, per la sua estrema semplicità d’uso e per il suo “parco” software vastissimo.

Per Kubuntu potete visitare il sito dove è postato l’annuncio ufficiale di rilascio ed un (breve tour) che illustra le caratteristiche salienti di questa versione. Il sito per il download è questo.

In modo simile anche per Xubuntu potete leggere l’annuncio, visualizzare un breve tour grafico e quindi passare al download.

Su Kubuntu in versione live vengono riconosciute e montate le eventuali partizioni windows presenti, così fin da subito si ha la possibilità di aprire i propri file per testare le applicazioni presenti in questa distribuzione, non invece su Xubuntu.

La scelta di Kubuntu è adatta all’utente che sa quello che fa, quella di Xubuntu è invece adatta all’utente che preferisce non correre il rischio di rovinare il file system preesistente sul pc.

Dopo una rapida “esplorazione” ci si renderà conto che non è possibile visualizzare correttamente siti con contenuto flash, come ad esempio YouTube, e nemmeno potersi godere i propri file musicali ed i propri filmati.

Karmic Koala infatti non include i principali codecs audio e video (nemmeno flash) e nemmeno driver proprietari, quali ad esempio quelli della scheda video.

Ciò potrebbe far scoraggiare l’utente che sia avvicina per la prima volta al mondo GNU/Linux, ma occorre sottolineare che bastano pochi interventi perché Karmic Koala diventi perfettamente “usabile”.

I filmati che vi propongo servono soltanto a mostrare l’impatto visivo di queste due distribuzioni e fare una carrellata dei principali software che mettono fin da subito a disposizione.

Le durate dei filmati non corrispondono a quelle reali, infatti prima di postarli ho preferito cancellare i “tempi morti” di durata eccessiva, anche perché per la registrazione mi sono servito di macchine virtuali che non emulano a dovere le caratteristiche hardware dei pc in circolazione.

Kubuntu

L’ambiente desktop è KDE 4.3.2 ed il kernel 2.6.31.14.generic.

Ecco una breve rassegna dei software inclusi (cito solo quelli di uso più comune):

• navigazione web: Konqueror
• posta elettronica: KMail
• chat: Kopete, Quassel IRC
• torrent: KTorrent
• ufficio: OpenOffice.org, Okular (visore di svariati tipi di documenti)
• grafica: Gwenview (viewer)
• audio: Amarok
• video: Dragon Player
• CD burning: K3b
• navigazione file: Dolphin

Xubuntu

L’ambiente desktop è Xfce 4.6.1 ed il kernel è 2.6.31-14-generic

Ecco una breve rassegna dei software inclusi (cito solo quelli di uso più comune):

• navigazione web: Firefox
• posta elettronica: Thunderbird
• chat: Pidgin, XChat IRC
• torrent: Transmission
• ufficio: Abiword, Gnumeric
• grafica: Ristretto (viewer), Gimp (editor)
• audio: Exaile
• video: Totem
• CD burning: Brasero
• navigazione file: Thunar

Gli altri programmi possono essere scaricati ad installazione ultimata.

Kubuntu e Xubuntu sono senza dubbio delle ottime distribuzioni (adatte soprattutto a chi proviene da windows) e le consiglio caldamente. Da quanto vi ho appena descritto, è chiaro che un intervento, seppur minimo, dell’utente è richiesto perché il sistema si adatti alle nostre esigenze.

Anteriormente no tenía este problema, pero al instalar Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10 instale emesene 1.5 y Exaile 0.3.0.1 todo perfecto hasta el momento de activar el complemento CurrentSong, la cosa es que emesene no mostraba la canción que se estaba reproduciendo en Exaile.

El tema fue revisar primero las propiedades del complemente y en la sección Estado debería decir ejecutándose (como se ve en la imagen), pero no era así.

Buscando un rato encontré la solución en el foro de emesene, aqui el resumen:

1. Descargamos el siguiente archivo: currentSong-Exaile.diff (del foro de emesene, necesitas estar registrado) o de currentSong-Exaile.diff (servidores como mu, rp, etc)

2. Cerramos exaile y emesene.

3. Aplicamos el parche, desde consola:

Ingresamos hasta la la ubicación del archivo y hacemos esto:

patch /usr/share/emesene/plugins_base/currentSong/Exaile.py currentSong-Exaile.diff

Con esto ya debería estar funcionando correctamente.

Exaile music manger running in ubuntu 9.04

Exaile is very light weight music manager. it is a music player that aims to be similar to Amarok, but for GTK+. It use very low resources compared to other music players like Rhythmbox, banshee, Amarok and songbird. It written in python.

Features…

1. Automatic fetching of album art

2. Handling of large libraries

3. Lyrics fetching

4.  Artist/album information via Wikipedia

5. Last.fm support

6. Editing audio tags and set ratings

7. portable media players support

8. Context view

9. Internet radio and podcasting support

10. stream ripper

11. Desktop cover

12. Moodbar

Installation is very simple under ubuntu as usual….

in terminal type    sudo apt-get install exaile

or install it from Synaptic or add/remove| ubuntu software center.

Latest Builds available from developer PPA : https://launchpad.net/~exaile-devel/+archive/ppa

Home page : http://www.exaile.org/

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Those of you who have been following my Linux Critic blog know that I’ve been on an app-hunt to replace some of the applications to which I’ve grown used to in KDE, mostly so that I can break my ties with that desktop and move forward completely without it. So far I’ve had some measure of success in this task, so I thought I’d do a writeup in case anyone else out there is moving on from KDE and needs some ideas about how to do that.

Finding replacement apps: It’s like switching from Windows to Linux all over again

It feels like I just did this, even though I’ve been running Linux as my primary OS since around 2002. When I decided to stop using KDE recently, I was surprised to find how many KDE applications on which I had become dependent, and how little idea I had what to use as alternatives. Some of them are little and therefore easily replaced, but others that are more full-featured have been quite a challenge. Here’s a sampling of the ones I’ve been working on lately.

Konqueror File Manager

This one is quite possibly the hardest one I’ve had to replace. Anyone out there who has grown accustomed to the power and flexibility of Konqueror File Manager can attest that it’s very difficult to settle on something else once you’ve used it for any length of time.

Fortunately for me, there are many file managers out there for Linux, so I had options a-plenty, but none quite so robust as Konqueror, so I simply found that I had to compromise a number of things in the process. In the end, no single file manager fit my needs, so I replaced Konqueror with two: Thunar and XFE. I chose these two ultimately because they both have a tree-view in the left-pane and a folder/file view in the right-pane, and they both let you type your path into an address/location bar instead of clicking through a bunch of breadcrumbs (I hate file managers that only give you breadcrumbs).

Thunar is pretty, and simple, and has some nice features like thumbnail previews of image files, and it’s very lightweight when compared to Konqueror (but face it, just about ANY file manager is lightweight when compared to Konqueror). For most file management tasks, Thunar does pretty well, with the only thing I really miss out of it being the lack of tabs. One complaint I have about Thunar is that there doesn’t seem to be a way to turn off the stupid delete confirmation dialogue.

Really? Seriously? I know that shouldn’t drive me nuts, but come on. It makes me feel like I’m using Windows 98 again. In fact, in my testing, I also gave PCManFM a try, and that one even has tabs… but it too had no way to disable the delete confirmation dialogue.

I have what I consider to be very simple tests to determine whether a file manager doesn’t suck, and this is one of them. It’s not a complicated thing.

So, when I get tired of that particular FAIL in Thunar, I switch to XFE. XFE is lightning fast, very Konqueror-like in its flexibility and power, but it has a couple of annoyances as well. XFE also doesn’t have tabs, but I discovered that pretty much everywhere, and I can live with that if I have to, but some basic behavior in XFE bugs me.

Example: You just copied a bunch of files into the clipboard and you navigate to the folder into which you wish to paste them. If that folder is full, anywhere you right-click to paste just shows the context-menu for the file in that spot. Basically put, if there’s no white space for you to right-click on, there’s no way to paste into that folder, aside from going up a level and right-clicking ON that folder and selecting paste.

Like the delete confirmation stupid I mentioned above, this is a little thing that should not bother me that much, but it does. I found myself getting burned by this simple behavior time and time again, and it eventually frustrates me and slows me down so much (I’m used to flying through file management tasks with Konqueror) that I close XFE and go back to Thunar.

I actually really like XFE in nearly every other way… the fact that it has an integrated editor (“xfw”) and the myriad configuration options in the “Preferences” give me lots of ways to make it do what I want it to do.

However, I have discovered, unsurprisingly, that replacing Konqueror is a tough task. In the end, what I have is a pair of applications (Thunar and XFE) that I alternate between based on whichever one happens to be annoying me the most at any given time. This may change down the road, of course. Maybe Thunar will end up with tabs and a way to shut off the “HAY STUPID, ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO DELEET THAT?” dialogue, and maybe the XFE devs will make some of its rather counter-intuitive behavior here and there (like I described above with copying and pasting) go away. Or, maybe some friendly reader here will pipe in and say “hey! Why don’t you try $XYZ? It’s just like Konqueror, but BETTER!” and suggest something that I never ran across that is a critic’s dream of a file manager. Who knows?

Kontact

I’ve written on switching to Thunderbird before, but I felt it relevant to mention it here, given the rest of the discusssion.

Kontact is a full-featured “personal information manager”, not just a mail client. The only other all-in-one such app that does everything that Kontact does out-of-the-box that I found in the open source universe was Evolution, and my recent experiences with Evolution have been less than happy, so I looked elsewhere. What I discovered was that Thunderbird had improved quite a bit over the past few years since I last tried it, and since there are more add-ons for it than you can shake a proverbial stick at, I thought that I might be able to get it to do at least a few of the things I wanted, namely Google calendaring and tasks on top of just POP mail.

I was right. With the Lightning add-on, I had a really nice integrated calendar, and I found out that it can talk to Google for calendaring (which is one up on Kontact… I had to do some pretty goofy stuff to get Kontact to do that even in a half-assed fashion, as opposed to Thunderbird with Lightning, a “full-assed” solution).

So for me anyway, Thunderbird with one simple add-on was enough for me to replace Kontact. It’s a solid mail client, and installing one add-on didn’t impact its performance by any measurable amount, and it added some great calendaring functionality, so I’m pretty happy with the results of this alternative.

Amarok

Amarok, like Konqueror, was another hard one to replace. While there are tons of open source music player applications out there, most of them are pretty feature-light. In fact, most of the ones I tested that liked to pretend to be “full featured” turned out to be less usable than even the lightweight XMMS. While there’s nothing wrong with XMMS, when you compare it to Amarok, it’s like comparing a compact economy car to a Cadillac. Yes, both will get you to where you’re going and they both do their stated job well, but when you’re used to the Cadillac, going to the compact economy car will leave you feeling short-changed.

So I tried a fair number of music players out there, including (but not limited to) Songbird, Banshee, Rhythmbox, and Audacious, and found that none of them were an adequate replacement for Amarok. I’d almost given up, but I had one more to try, and I’m glad I did try it. That one was Exaile.

Exaile is practically a GTK+ implementation of Amarok, it’s so close in form and function. It organizes your music library with a simple tree on the left, has an integrated album cover manager, sane buttons for controls, a big queue list that can be loaded simply by right-clicking on an artist, album, or song and selecting “append to current”, and the ability to create playlists very quickly and easily.

K3b

I haven’t found a replacement for K3b yet. Brasero is the one people always suggest, but I just find it a lot less intuitive than K3b. I can live with it, I suppose, but I’m still in the process of searching when it comes to DVD/CD burning.

Quanta

Like K3b, I haven’t found a replacement for Quanta yet. Bluefish is the one everyone suggests as an alternative to Quanta, but there really is no comparison. Granted, I don’t do a huge amount of web authoring, but I have grown very attached to Quanta for writing my Linux Critic articles, since I prefer to just write in straight-up HTML rather than use the WYSIWYG editor in WordPress, and Bluefish doesn’t even come close to making that process as fast and as slick as Quanta does. So I’m still looking in this particular department as well.

A resource I need to use more

One thing I should mention, for anyone else out there that is also going through something similar, is a great place on the web to find alternates to various applications. Osalt.com has a huge list of applications to suggest if one is looking for another option for anything.

For example, just digging around a bit to look for Quanta alternatives yields this page which lists a fair number of applications I still have yet to try, so obviously I need to spend more time on that site in my endeavoring to replace KDE applications.

I’ll write up an update if or when I make any more progress in this task!

Exaile – http://exaile.org || Ekran Görüntüleri

Exaile AmaroK’un Gnome sürümü gibi birşey olmuş diyebilir miyim bilmiyorum ama AmaroK’a benzer bir görünümle geldiğini söyleyebilirim. Sol menüsü AmaroK’u oldukça andırıyor ve şarkıcı isimleri listeleniyor.  Birden fazla sekmede farklı çalma listeleri açıp , aralarında rahatlıkla gezebiliyorum.

Sütunlara sağ tıklayıp , şarkıya ait istediğimiz özellikleri seçerek görüntüleyebiliyorum. Location‘ı tıklayıp , şarkıları yine dosya yollarına göre sıralıyorum. Ancak bu işlem sırasında bilgisayar sanki biraz kasıldı gibime geldi.

AudioScrobbler eklentisi sayesinde Last.fm ile bağlantı kurup , dinlediğim şarkıları Last.fm’e gönderebiliyorum. Bunun için Düzenle –> Tercihler –> Plugins’den AudioScrobbler’ı etkin hale getiriyorum ve Plugins’in hemen alt menüsünde beliren AudioScrobbler bölümünden Last.fm ayarlarımı yapıyorum.

Rhythmbox ve Banshee’de üstte görmeye alıştığım arama bölümü çalma listesinin altında karşılıyor beni. Diğer müzik çalarlarda üste bakmaya alıştığımdan , ilk etapta bulması zaman aldı açıkçası. Ayrıca arama özelliği yeterince hızlı.

Exaile’da şarkı sözü eklentisi mevcut olsa da , etkinleştirdikten sonra şarkı sözlerine nasıl ulaşabileceğimi bir türlü bulamadım. O yüzden bundan yarım puan kırıyorum sadece.

Exaile’da çeşitli çalma listeleri mevcut ve kendim de yeni listeler ekleyebiliyorum. En çok ilgimi çeken liste ise , medya kütüphanesinden gelişigüzel seçtiği 500 şarkıyı koyduğu liste. Sıkıldığımda ya da ne dinleyeceğinizi bilemediğim zamanlarda kullanışlı olabilir.

Programda herhangi bir auto-tag özelliği bulunmamakla birlikte , kendim de toplu şekilde sanatçı adı gibi id-tagları toptan düzenleyemiyorum. Sadece tek tek düzenlemeye izin veriyor program.

Yeni eklediğim dosyalarım içinse Araçlar menüsünün altında Rescan Collection özelliği bulunmakta. Bu sayede klasöre yeni attığım dosyaları bir daha Exaile’a ekleme zahmetine girmemiş oluyorum.

Exaile için Puanım : 7/10

Sonuç

Rhythmbox şu an için en iyi müzik çalar gibi görünüyor. Banshee’den ayrıldığı nokta ise Şarkı Sözü eklentisi. Yoksa ikisi de benzer şeyleri yapıyor. Hatta Banshee video da oynatabiliyor sanırım ama ben sadece müzik çalar yönlerine baktığım için Rhythmbox ön plana çıktı. Exaile ise benim için oldukça kullanışsız ve bilgisayarı ağırlaştırdığı durumlar oluyor.

Ve benim için kazanan : Rhythmbox

Not : 1. Bölümün başında da belirttiğim gibi , bu puanlar ve yorumlar tamamen benim ihtiyaçlarım doğrultusunda oluşturulmuştur. Benim için en az kullanışlı olan Exaile , sizin için en mükemmel müzik çalar olabilir. Ancak en azından bu yazı ile birlikte hangi müzik çalar neyi yapıyor neyi yapamıyor az da olsa bilgi sahibi olmuş olmalısınız. Eh zaten amacım da buydu.

Önceki Yazılar

1. Bölüm : Giriş ve Rhythmbox
2. Bölüm : Banshee

Bueno amigos, después de unos días de miedo estudiando para mi tanda de pruebas (y que aún no terminan…) me tomo unos días libres por fiestas patrias, y aprovecho de actualizar algunos post viejos con sus nuevas versiones. Esta vez le tocó a Banshee y Exaile, que han mejorado mucho desde la última vez que los vi. Pero aún así me sigo quedando con mi viejo y querido Rhythmbox

Anteriormente les había hablado de aplicaciones para audio en Mi Ubuntu. Y noté en las respuestas que habían aplicaciones que otros usuarios  usaban. Así que me dediqué a revisarlas y he notado lo mucho que han avanzado.

Ok, pasemos a verlas

Amarok 2

Amarok 2 ya ha salido, y está disponible. Si quieren instalar la versión anterior, busquen en Synaptic o en Agregar o quitar programas Amarok (Instrucciones aquí).

Si quieres instalar la última versión, edita y agrega a los repositorios

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Para Ubuntu Hardy Heron

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-members-kde4/ubuntu hardy main

Para Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-members-kde4/ubuntu intrepid main

Ahora podrás instalarlo con sudo apt-get install amarok-kde4:

Comparativamente al anterior Amarok, son muchas las diferencias que resaltan.  La primera es como se ve visualmente; su interfaz ha cambiado completamente. Otra cosa que llama la atención es que ha mejorado mucho su integración con servicios como Last.fm. Para añadir, cuenta con nuevas extensiones y applets.

Ojo, que también es para Ubuntu, no tan sólo Kubuntu!

Debo decir que no me gustó. En términos de rendimiento me sigo quedando con Rhythmbox, y su interfaz la encontré confusa… No sé… Es mi humilde opinión

Exaile

Cuando instalé por primera vez Ubuntu, me puse en una frenética búsqueda por un buen reproductor de música, uno que combinara una interfaz agradable y un buen rendimiento. Y pasé por Exaile. No me gustó, y seguí buscando.

Ahora, lo vuelvo a revisar, y noto que mucho de los errores que tenían ya no están, y además cuenta con nuevas opciones. Así que pasemos a ver.

En general su interfaz no es la gran cosa, sin embargo igual es agradable. Una cosa que me llamó la atención es que no cuenta con un icono para la barra de notificación por defecto.

Una de las cosas más atractivas es que cuenta con un buen ecualizador y excelentes extensiones:

Al igual que Amarok y otros reproductores, cuenta con integración en Last.fm, servicios de radio Online, descarga de carátulas y más.

Este programa lo puedes descargar desde Añadir y Quitar programas. Las instrucciones aquí.

Actualización: si deseas probar la última versión disponible para Jaunty y Karmic, sólo sigue los siguientes pasos:

• Abre una terminal con sudo gedit/etc/apt/sources.list y pega el repositorio:
  deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/exaile-devel/ubuntu karmic main (para Karmic)
  deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/exaile-devel/ubuntu jaunty main (para Jaunty)
• Guarda los cambios y sigue los siguientes comandos:

gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring /tmp/.exaile.keyring --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv B79BBC58DE219687E584187AC174A7B143CBFCC0
gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring /tmp/.exaile.keyring --export --armor B79BBC58DE219687E584187AC174A7B143CBFCC0 | sudo apt-key add -
rm /tmp/.exaile.keyring
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install exaile


Banshee

Este es un buen reproductor. Debo decir que cada vez me gusta más; sin embargo no sé por qué:
Una de las cosas que me gustan es que, además de ser un buen reproductor de música, reproduce video. Se parece al Rhythmbox en las opciones que tiene, así que no las voy a repetir. Sin embargo, su interfaz se parece al Exaile, así que tiene de todo un poco.
Este programa lo puedes descargar desde Añadir y Quitar programas. Las instrucciones aquí.

Actualización: si quieres actualizar a la última versión disponible, sólo abre una terminal y edita la lista de repositorios con sudo gedit/etc/apt/sources.list, pegando las siguientes líneas:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/banshee-team/ppa/ubuntu karmic main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/banshee-team/ppa/ubuntu karmic main (para Karmic Koala)
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/banshee-team/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/banshee-team/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main (para Jaunty)
Guardas, y cierras. Luego añades la llave gpg con sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 6E80C6B7. Actualizas con sudo apt-get update e instalas con sudo apt-get install banshee

Last.fm

Si deseas escuchar tu música online, last.fm es una excelente opción. Si no deseas navegar por internet, cuentas con esta opción. En general, tiene las mismas opciones que las del navegador.Liviano, y es una buena alternativa

Whaaw! Media Player

Esta es una exclusiva. Es un programa ideal para los que desean tener un programa ultra ligero para su computador. Además de ser un reproductor de música, cuenta con un reproductor de música.
Lo puedes descargar desde aquí. Descomprímelo, y compílalo. No se asusten, hay un Readme que te dice las instrucciones. Es muy fácil.
Si desean que les explique como hacerlo, me avisan.
Si se fijan, no tiene nada. Cero interfaz. Pero carga muy rápido, y es genial para computadores que tengan poca ram.
Bueno amigos míos, eso ha sido todo. Como les había dicho, yo voy a seguir escribiendo lo más normal posible, eso es que al menos tengamos arriba 3 artículos por semana. Yo me comprometo con 2, y espero que los otros editores pongan el tercero.
En general debo decirles que me ha ido muy bien en la práctica, paso resfriado por los niños que atiendo, pero he aprendido muchísimo. Eso me tiene muy contento, pero me quita mucho tiempo; por eso no puedo escribir demasiado.
Amigos míos, queda poco para terminar Mi Ubuntu. Faltan sólo 2 partes. Probablemente la última se divida, pero la idea es que sea un sólo post largo. Me da pena terminarlo, pero es mejor poder cerrar un ciclo. No significa que deje de escribir, pero sí hablaré de otros temas además de tutoriales.
Eso ha sido todo. Espero que les haya gustado. Nos vemos

Exaile es un reproductor de MP3 para Gnome. Para tener la última versión de Exaile, solo debes:

1. Copiar y pegar la siguiente línea en tu /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/exaile-devel/ubuntu jaunty main

2. Ingresar en consola:

gpg –no-default-keyring –keyring /tmp/.exaile.keyring –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com –recv B79BBC58DE219687E584187AC174A7B143CBFCC0

gpg –no-default-keyring –keyring /tmp/.exaile.keyring –export –armor B79BBC58DE219687E584187AC174A7B143CBFCC0 | sudo apt-key add -

rm /tmp/.exaile.keyring

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install exaile

Y Listo! Ya tienes la última versión de Exaile corriendo en Ubuntu.

Capturas (en realidad, sólo una ):

Up The Irons!!

Algunas veces cuando usaba Exaile, luego de escuchar un rato música, me aparecía este error al pinchar una canción: ‘list’ object has no attribute ‘get_total_length’; y al poner aceptar el cuadro del error, la canción se paraba no pudiendo escuchar bien música porque el error corta la reproducción.

Para solucionar esto se van a la terminal y ponen:

sudo gedit /usr/share/exaile/xl/gui/playlist.py

En el archivo buscan donde sale:

s = sorted(s, key=operator.itemgetter(0), reverse=reverse)

songs = [track[-1] for track in s]

return songs

Y cambian la segunda línea (la songs = [track.....), por esto:

songs = library.TrackData([track[-1] for track in s])

Luego ponen guardar y listo.

Rhythmbox sebagai pemain musik default di Ubuntu sudah cukup baik buat saya sehingga saya tidak pernah menggantinya dengan Amarok, ato yg lain. Namun setelah mengupgrade Ibex ke Jaunty saya mengalami sedikit anomali dengan rhythmbox.

Anomali pertama adalah rhythmbox tidak henti2nya memunculkan dialog untuk mencari plugin/codec yg tepat apabila menemukan file yang tidak bisa ia atasi di librari musik setiap rhythmbox dijalankan. Seingat saya dulu begitu sekali saya cancel dialog yg muncul, dialog tersebut tidak akan muncul lagi.

Anomali kedua adalah apabila aplikasi yg berjalan sudah cukup banyak (lebih dari tiga), saat sedang memainkan musik, lagu yg sedang dimainkan akan berhenti sejenak (sekitar kurang dari satu detik) setiap saya memindahkan fokus dari satu aplikasi ke aplikasi yang lain (application switching). Rasanya seperti rhythmbox menggunakan resource yg cukup besar sehingga sedikit perubahan bisa mengganggu proses lagu yg sedang dimainkan.

Akhirnya saya memilih untuk mencoba music player lain. Amarok bukan pilihan, karena menggunakan Qt library. Lalu saya menemukan Exaile. Dan ternyata sangat bagus! Simple, mirip amarok, dan tidak ada lagi anomali seperti yg dialami rhythmbox