{"id":122,"date":"2006-12-29T14:16:49","date_gmt":"2006-12-29T12:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jerome.harckmans.be\/?p=122"},"modified":"2006-12-29T14:16:49","modified_gmt":"2006-12-29T12:16:49","slug":"music-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jerome.harckmans.be\/?p=122","title":{"rendered":"Music Player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the Gentoo team declared xmms being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gentoo.org\/news\/en\/gwn\/20061030-newsletter.xml\">out of support<\/a>, I tried some music players for replacing it, which I used for many years now.<\/p>\n<p>I first took a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/audacious-media-player.org\">audacious<\/a>, which is a xmms look-alike player written in Gtk, but I had some problems with sticky title bars and I soon abandoned it.<\/p>\n<p>Then I gave <a href=\"http:\/\/amarok.kde.org\/\">Amarok<\/a> a try, and after some tweaking, it rapidly became my new music player of choice. It of course plays mp3, ogg, wav, pls and m3u (stream radios), and CD&#8217;s, and features a great playlist editor, which xmms lacks. Aside of that, it has some nice features like On Screen Display (OSD), covers management, lyrics search tool, etc.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"blog_images\/amarok_full.png\" rel=\"lightbox[122]\"><img src=\"blog_images\/amarok_prev.png\" alt=\"Amarok\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was reluctant to use any other player than xmms because I heavily used the xmms-shell program to command the player: a small applet on top of my screen allowed me to rapidly pause, switch songs and change the volume. This has now been replaced by the amarok global shortcut capability: you can configure any key combination to trigger the most common actions: play, pause, fast forward, next track, volume, &#8230; and that not only within amarok (hence the word global \ud83d\ude09 ).<\/p>\n<p>Now I just have to arrange all my mp3 tags in order to use the playlist functionality the most efficiently :|&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/pwp.netcabo.pt\/paol\/tagtool\/\">Tagtool<\/a> will be my best friend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the Gentoo team declared xmms being out of support, I tried some music players for replacing it, which I used for many years now. I first took a look<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,6,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerome.harckmans.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerome.harckmans.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerome.harckmans.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerome.harckmans.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerome.harckmans.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jerome.harckmans.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerome.harckmans.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerome.harckmans.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerome.harckmans.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}