spielwiese. (Posts about software.)https://spielwiese.fontein.de/tag/software.atom2019-11-17T10:46:39ZfelixNikolamusic players.https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2010/08/16/music-players/2010-08-16T22:57:15+02:002010-08-16T22:57:15+02:00felix<p>i upgraded to a new ubuntu a week ago, after buying a new harddisk. this resulted in getting <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarok_%28software%29">amarok</a>2 instead of amarok1, which i was used to. and it was a complete failure. it ignored my music, didn’t show anything in the collection, and some tries to change this didn’t do anything. well. so i decided to try out <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exaile">exaile</a>. this worked well, until i noticed that changing to the desktop exaile was running on took up to five seconds. i don’t know why. but this is clearly inacceptable, this should take way less than one second. so i started looking around. i tried <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythmbox">rhythmbox</a>, the standard <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME">gnome</a> player, but it didn’t really managed to read my music collection. then, i tried <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMMS2">xmms2</a> and various frontends. so far, i didn’t really found a frontend which convinced me. but at least the backend is working fine. maybe i should start hacking my own frontend together, to do exactly what i want it to do.<br>
it is not exactly satisfactory, but for the moment, i think i’ll stay with xmms2. at least it works fine so far, accepts my music collection, and has no strange hickups.</p>