Re: Music Application for Linux

From: LaDainian Tomlinson (go_at_away.spam.invalid)
Date: 11/22/04 

Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 03:29:03 GMT

On 2004-11-21, 'Gerald' <gcaldwel@pobox.com> wrote in
comp.os.linux.misc:

> Hi All,
> I'm looking for information on a good full featured Music
> Player (rips, encodes mp3, organizes, play lists, burns and
> plays CD all in the same application) for Linux. I currently
> use the following
> Xmms to play mp3's
> Grip to rip tracks form my personally bought CDs.
> K3B to burn CDs
> I haven't located a decent music cataloging/organizer
> application yet.

I halfway suggest JuK, which is KDE's answer to iTunes. It does
a good job with organizing by ID3 tag and managing playlists.
But it has quite a few aggravating bugs. It recently started
segfaulting every time it reaches the end of a playlist, and the
ID3 tagger will do all sorts of strange things to filenames and
v2 tags. It's better than XMMS though for large libraries of
music, and of course it is integrated into KDE (if you're using
that rather than GNOME).

> The problem is it's a pain to use three or four application to
> do something that one application should do all by itself.

Why do you say one application should do all that? I'd rather
have four applications that each do a good job at their own task
than one application that does a mediocre job at four tasks.
It's rare that I want to rip AND burn a CD at the same time, or
that I'm in such a hurry that I can't be bothered to run the two
apps separately. If you wanted to, it wouldn't be much trouble
to write a GUI front-end to existing CLI tools like lame, mpg321,
and cdparanoia to tie them all together.

> I'm looking for something on the par with MusicMatch/Media
> Player/iTunes and that can support purchasing music on line and
> transferring music purchased on line from my library to a
> Portable Player.
>
> Are there any applications out there for Linux like this?

I'm not too familiar with purchasing music online, but I would
think that if your player can be mounted like an external drive,
you should be able to transfer music to it as if it were simply a
drive. I may be way off. It seems like my dad was able to drag
and drop files onto his MP3 player in Windows without any
software. If your player happens to be an iPod, I think you're
out of luck for now, at least until iTunes is released for Linux.

> If not, are there any projects on the horizon to attempt to try
> and bring a quality application like this to the Linux
> platform?
>
> Are there any discussion groups out there that are looking for
> this to be a reality?
>
> I'm currently studying Java and if there are no plans out there
> to provide a application like this for Linux then it seems like
> I have to choice but to write something like this for my own
> purposes.

Go for it. But must you write it in Java? :-)

> Anyway it goes I'm interested in hearing any responses and
> comments on this subject.
>
> I really wish there was a newsgroup devoted to Linux
> Applications in General for general users and applications that
> would hasten the acceptance of Linux more quickly.

As far as that goes, Red Hat and Mandrake seem to be the most
likely candidates for being "accepted" in the desktop world. If
you wanted to write software to that end, you might consider
hanging around their groups/mailing lists/fora.

Good luck,

Brandan L. 

-- 
bclennox \at eos \dot ncsu \dot edu

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