Comments on: Amarok Replaces My Other Internet Music Players

By: Don Ray

Don Ray — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:49:48 +0000

Thanks for dropping in Bob. In those two Internet radio sources, you can pretty well find what ever strikes your fancy as far as radio stations go.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:40:20 +0000

thanks don ray…been trying to find a npr station and now got one.
bob

By: Don Ray

Don Ray — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:10:43 +0000

Hi Leena. Yes, it is similiar to winamp. Wonder where the red coms from.

By: Leena

Leena — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 07:46:40 +0000

I am not now quite sure, is this a same type player, but I have used Winamp as my default player of music ( all kind ), pictures and videos.
I can find hundreds of radio stations, every kind of music, what you ever want …
And you are right about baby`s red ( or golden ) glimpse in her hair
Thank you for coming by!

By: Tuxi

Tuxi — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 02:17:43 +0000

I agree with Henry about vlc, but I also have mplayer and xine on my boxes. You might want to try them all to see which one you like better. Mplayer has access to a lot of codecs that can be downloaded from their site (http://www.mplayerhq.hu) if they’re not included in the Ubuntu repository.

By: Don Ray

Don Ray — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 01:54:46 +0000

Thanks Henry.

By: Henry

Henry — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 01:32:45 +0000

If you’re looking for a video player, VLC is just about the least hassle-free of them all. “sudo apt-get install vlc” does the trick. If you want to watch DVDs, you’ll also need libdvdcss. It’s a bit hard to find, so if anyone needs it, just email me.

henry@panamaretire.net

By: Don Ray

Don Ray — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 23:04:16 +0000

I had tried the Gnome player and didn’t like it. Amarok is much better.

Most of the time if I add programs I just use the Synaptic utility.

By: Tuxi

Tuxi — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:12:09 +0000

Welcome to AmaroK! I’ve been using it as my music player for some time now. I used to use xmms, but AmaroK has nice cover art features, playlists, etc. There is a Gnome media player that is trying to be like AmaroK, but it still doesn’t measure up.

Isn’t Linux a joy when it comes to adding applications? In Debian and its offspring (like Ubuntu), “sudo apt-get install xxxx” from the command line or any of the package managers make it simple.

I do want to warn you about an issue I had with Adept (package manager). Make sure you double-check what it will install and uninstall; I had it uninstalling critical programs (like HAL, the hardware abstraction layer daemon). It took me while, but I think I’ve recovered from the accidental damage.