Topic: A Music Management Recommendation?
Does anyone have a recommendation for an application to manage my music under CrunchBang? Something similar to iTunes (*shudder*), for lack of a better comparison?
I greatly appreciate any suggestions 
- dotism
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Trying gogglesmm from testing... Perhaps that is capable?
- VastOne
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Look at my sig line...
I highly recommend GmusicBrowser... It is a lot like conky and #!, HIGHLY configurable .. and of course I can help you with the layouts as I have created quite a few
- dotism
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Thank you, VastOne, I am going to get on that right now...
^Goggles isn't really to my liking... Though I'm sure it is capable enough. I'm off to try GmusicBrowser.
- VastOne
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Go to the web site and pick up the git version ...
There is a How To in the Development section of the wiki
Let me know when/if you need help
Once you have it setup and ready, I will send you the massive selection of layouts and add ons I have accumulated and designed
- dotism
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Oh, gMusicBrowser is perfect. Thank you, VastOne!
- VastOne
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It even has a layout that mimics iTunes
though I do not use it 
- dotism
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VastOne wrote:
Let me know when/if you need help
Once you have it setup and ready, I will send you the massive selection of layouts and add ons I have accumulated and designed
Actually, I'm not sure I understand how to use this... I tried drag and drop but now I can't find my albums. I am a little confused
- VastOne
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Look through it and get to know it in settings.. Let it scan your music directory and build it's database..
It will take a minute or three to get used to, but worth it in the end
- dotism
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OH! I get it! Wow, this is kinda awesome. Thanks for the patience
- dotism
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Any idea what 'non-gstreamer iceserver mode' is? I wonder if it is related to my inability to play music or adjust the volume if music was playing.
I love this interface and concept of sniffing directories, but it doesn't seem to want to play anything. Annoying! This thing appears to be amazing.
- VastOne
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You have to be sure to have all of it's dependencies loaded.. It is written in perl and will need additional perl based gstreamer dependencies All are listed all on this page
- dotism
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Ah, I see... I'm installing mplayer now, I'll go back and make sure all the other deps are met as well... sorry about the bother 
- VastOne
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It is no bother, and well worth it once you get there... take it nice and slow... You really do not need mplayer for GMB, because you will be using alsa ... but it is a good app to have installed for video codecs and such
use Synaptic to search for each of those dependencies
- machinebacon
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@dotism, does this happen with other players, too (alsaplayer or mpg123, for example, or when watching a video in the browser and playing a file in a player)? Do you use pulseaudio? Usually, when you cannot play two things the same time, this is due to a 'software mixer' setting called dmix.
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- dotism
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I think I have to give up on this... Goggles is good enough for my needs at the moment, I think. I'll keep looking around for alternatives.
I really appreciate the help though!
Edit: Audacious seems OK
Edit2: amarok might be the thing for me.
Last edited by dotism (2011-12-09 06:41:58)
- machinebacon
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I don't recommend Amarok, it pulls a few hundred MB's of kde4-dependencies.
You can check http://www.clementine-player.org/ - that's a nice one.
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- dotism
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@machinebacon -- Yeah, it took a long, unnecessary, time to get amarok going. It sure is pretty though.
I would really like to get gMusicBrowser working... Like CrunchBang, something about it just *ticks*. I am able to use the thing functionally, it just doesn't play music. Kinda important 
I'm off to check out Clementine (I love the name). Thank you!
Edit: Wow, Clementine has a nice website -- I had forgotten about those since switching to linux.
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Can I ask a really, really stupid question?
- machinebacon
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^ Rule of Thumb: If there is a K in the name, it's most probably for KDE (similar to G for Gnome or gtk)
The Amarok counterpart for gtk is Exaile, I think. Linux users are lucky enough to have a wide range of music players to choose from, and also many music managements + players. Exaile, Listen!, Rhythmbox, Banshee, Parole, Guayadeque - all similar but different. The installation sizes differ extremely
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- machinebacon
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dotism wrote:
Can I ask a really, really stupid question?
Now I'm curious!
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dotism wrote:
Can I ask a really, really stupid question?
I doubt it, but I'd like to see you try! 
while ( ! ( succeed = try() ) );
- dotism
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machinebacon wrote:
Now I'm curious!
Is there a way to simultaneously install a .deb package's dependencies when using dpkg? I am getting so tired of being denied an install due to dependencies when it seems like they could just be installed on-the-fly.
I know this is stupid and newbie embarrassment, but I have to learn someway
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^ Honestly speaking: I don't think so. Gotta look into the manpage of dpkg. *blush*
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- dotism
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I have just resorted to using apt-pinning for most of installs lately just to avoid this problem.