Media Players

[Rog131]

Lot of media players:

Amarok, Audacious, Audio Overload, BMPx,
Linux Media Player Roundup - Part 1 (http://www.raiden.net/?cat=2&aid=325)

Banshee, Decibel Media Player, Exaile, JuK,
Linux Media Player Roundup - Part 2 (http://www.raiden.net/?cat=2&aid=331)

KPlayer, Kaffeine, MPlayer, Miro,
Linux Media Player Roundup - Part 3 (http://www.raiden.net/?cat=2&aid=334)

Mpg123, Muine, Music Player Daemon, MusicIP Mixer,
Linux Media Player Roundup - Part 4 (http://www.raiden.net/?cat=2&aid=337)

Noatun, Ogle DVD Player, Quod Libet, RealPlayer,
Linux Media Player Roundup - Part 5 (http://www.raiden.net/?cat=2&aid=342)

Rhythmbox, Songbird, Totem, Aqualung,
Linux Media Player Roundup - Part 6 (http://www.raiden.net/?cat=2&aid=345)

VLC, XMMS/XMMS2, Xfmedia, Xine, Listen Media Player.
Linux Media Player Roundup - Part 7 - Finale (http://www.raiden.net/?cat=2&aid=349)


More:

> 42 of the Best Free Linux Audio Software (http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20080622143124178/Audio.html)
> 11 Video Players for Linux - Review (http://vivapinkfloyd.blogspot.com/2008/06/linux-video-players.html)
> 10 KDE Audio/Video Players (http://vivapinkfloyd.blogspot.com/2008/07/10-kde-audiovideo-players.html)
> 15 Linux Music Players - Download your Favorite (http://www.smashingdownloads.com/2008/10/19/15-linux-music-players-download-your-favorite/)

[Rog131]

Alpha but looking really promising
1.0 was released Jan 14 2010
2.0 was release Jan 30 2011


> Bangarang (http://bangarangkde.wordpress.com/)

> Bangarang Home (http://gitorious.org/bangarang/pages/Home) & Bangarang git (http://gitorious.org/bangarang)


Bangarang is a KDE media player.

The project, scratches my itch: To have a media – audio and video – player that gets the basics right with a not-overwhelming interface.

Why do it? Simple. Because I want to. Nothing more complicated than that.

As much as possible, the pillars of KDE and existing KDE infrastructures are/will be used, and constructive feedback provided to the respective projects.

A functioning nepomuk repository, with a sensibly speedy backend (like sesame or virtuoso) is required.


> Bangarang KDE-Apps (http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Bangarang?content=113305)


Description:
Bangarang is a KDE media player. The name comes from the Jamaican word for noisy, chaos or disorder.

Requires:
- KDE 4.3 or later with full set of dev packages including nepomuk and soprano.
- Taglib 1.5 or later.
- A fully functioning nepomuk repository, with a sensibly speedy backend (like sesame or virtuoso).


http://www.kde-apps.org/CONTENT/content-pre1/113305-1.png

http://www.kde-apps.org/CONTENT/content-pre2/113305-2.jpg

http://www.kde-apps.org/CONTENT/content-pre3/113305-3.jpg


It plays, at here, with the Karmic Koala:

audio CD
video DVD
mp3
mpg
mp4
mov
avi
wmv
flv
...



Update > [ubuntu/lucid] bangarang 1.0~beta2-1ubuntu1 (Accepted) (https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2009-December/002006.html)

[Rog131]

Commandline
;) we don't need a pansy gui ;)


> CLI audio players for Linux (http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/124907)

What would life be without music? Given the proper codecs, in Linux you can play almost any digital audio format. Linux has many graphical applications that can do the job, such as Amarok, Rhythmbox, Audacious, and XMMS, all of which provide an intuitive user interface, playlist sorting, and various other options. But what if you want low resource usage so you can play tunes on aging hardware? Here are some alternative players for the Linux command line...

> Several powerful console music players for Linux (http://tuxarena.blogspot.com/2009/04/several-powerful-console-music-players.html)

> Command Line Audio players: mpg321 and mpg123 (http://commandline.org.uk/command-line/command-line-audio-players-mpg321-and-mpg123/)

> Powerful Multimedia Command-Line Tools, Part I - SoX (http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1005773)

> 13 Command Line Tools for Audio on Linux (http://vivapinkfloyd.blogspot.com/2008/07/13-command-line-tools-for-audio-on.html)

[MoonRise]

Hey Rog! Which Bangarang should I use for KK using SC 4.4 (downloading the DEB direct from your PPA)? I'd like to try it out as I'm not happy with Amarok at the moment.

[vinnywright]

I installed the Lucid one from the..... https://launchpad.net/~samrog131/+archive/ppa

and if you look a few threds down in audio/video you will see my gleeming prase of it ;D

on Karmic-9.10 KDE-4.4.0

VINNY

[Rog131]

Hey Rog! Which Bangarang should I use for KK using SC 4.4 (downloading the DEB direct from your PPA)?

The working one :D ?

There is an official Kubuntu backport > https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa/+archive/backports


Other options for the Kubuntu 9.10 / KDE 4.4 > https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas?name_filter=bangarang


I'm using now bangarang-development-snapshot (2010-02-19) with the Karmic (KDE 4.3) and Lucid ( KDE 4.4). Both seems to work without problems.

[MoonRise]

Thanks! I had just gone ahead and downloaded the DEB for Lucid. Runs great! I must say I like it better than Dragon and Amarok!

[jetpirloui]

Does Bangarang really worth to drop Amarok ?

I usually use amarok for playing music and smplayer for video. Does Bangarang greatly manages both ?

Cheers.

[vinnywright]

Does Bangarang really worth to drop Amarok ?

I usually use amarok for playing music and smplayer for video. Does Bangarang greatly manages both ?

Cheers.


I don't know about dropping amarok but yes bangarang is nice :)

[OneLine]

Kubuntu 11.10 / KDE 4.7 / Amarok 2.4.3 - 2.5.0

I can't get the Amarok to play the CD's. And same thing seems to be with other users: http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php?56320-Playing-CDs-in-Amarok.

With the Bangarang (2.1) the CD's play if i use the Xine Phonon backend. The Xine backend has been deprecated and removed from the Ubuntu repositories. I'm using the Xine Phonon backend from the Natty - phonon-backend-xine_4.7.0really4.4.4-0ubuntu3_i386.deb.

Another way to is to use the cdtool.


:~$ apt-cache show cdtool


Description: text-based audio CD player and CD-ROM control commands
cdtool contains cdplay, cdeject, cdstop, cdpause, and several other
programs for playing audio CDs and controlling a CD-ROM drive from
the command line and in a quick and scriptable way.
.
cdown reads track info and queries a CDDB database for info on
the current CD. cdctrl is a command line utility for controlling a
CD-ROM drive interactively and from scripts. cdir keeps track of the
contents of different CDs using a workman-compatible database.




man cdtool

NAME
cdtool - play and catalog audio CDROMs on CDROM drive(s)

SYNOPSIS
cdeject [-[0..9]|-d device] [-V|-?|-h]
cdclose [-[0..9]|-d device] [-V|-?|-h]
cdir -n [-[0..9]|-d device] [-r|-s|-t|-V|-?|-h]
cdinfo [-[0..9]|-d device] [-a|-r|-s|-t|-v|-V|-?|-h]
cdpause [-[0..9]|-d device] [-V|-?|-h]
cdplay [-[0..9]|-d device] [start [stop]
cdplay [-[0..9]|-d device] [+|- number]
cdplay [-[0..9]|-d device] [start|stop|resume|eject|close|info|dir]
cdplay [-[0..9]|-d device] [-V|-?|-h]
cdstop [-[0..9]|-d device] [-V|-?|-h]
cdvolume [-[0..9]|-d device] [-V|-?|-h|level]
cdshuffle [-[0..9]|-d device] [-V|-?|-h]

DESCRIPTION
The cdeject command ejects the current compact disc.

The cdclose command closes the CDROM tray.

The cdir command lists information about the currently loaded audio
compact disc. In particular, it lists the lengths of all tracks...


That is: Alt+F2 and cdplay, cdstop, ...

[OneLine]

http://qt-apps.org/content/show.php/QMPlay2?content=153339


Description:
QMPlay2 is a video player, it can plays all formats and stream supported by ffmpeg and libmodplug (including J2B). It has integrated Youtube and Wrzuta.pl browser.


http://i.imgur.com/YOY3n.jpg


PPA package search: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas?name_filter=qmplay2

[woodsmoke]

LOL
That is one very interesting post!

I particularly like the stream integrations.

One thing that Amarok does not do is any kind of somewhat reasonable "visualization".

I can 'member back at Xandros days, I think, when one loaded external packages for visualizations,but that got dropped quite a while ago.

woodsmoke

[OneLine]

KDE Community Wiki - Plasma Media Center : http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Plasma_Media_Center
KDE Projects: https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/multimedia/plasma-mediacenter

A developers blog: http://www.sinny.in/blog
--> http://www.sinny.in/node/25

Running Plasma Media Center on Fedora and Ubuntu distro


Wed, 10/24/2012 - 15:50 — sinny


Hi to all !

Good news for all PMC lovers and those who wanted to try it but haven’t yet. Anyone can easily install PMC on their system with little effort. Only you need to do is, follow the steps which are mentioned below...


http://i.imgur.com/90w8u.png


PPA search: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas?name_filter=plasma-mediacenter

[luckyone]

Last time I looked it was well over 300 MB for PMC.

[OneLine]

...over 300 MB for PMC.

Hmm ??


Source:


Cloning into 'plasma-mediacenter'...
...
Receiving objects: 100% (10226/10226), 9.31 MiB...


Without the .git: ~ 620KiB /1/.

http://i.imgur.com/7JNsp.png

Binaries (at here):



:~$ apt-cache show plasma-mediacenter
...
Installed-Size: 913
...
Recommends: ffmpegthumbs | ffmpegthumbs-mattepaint | mplayerthumbs | kffmpegthumbnailer
Depends: kde-runtime, libc6 (>= 2.14), libkdeclarative5 (>= 4:4.7.0), libkdecore5 (>= 4:4.4.95), libkdeui5 (>= 4:4.4.95), libkfile4 (>= 4:4.3.4), libkio5 (>= 4:4.7.0), libnepomuk4 (>= 4:4.5.85), libnepomukquery4a (>= 4:4.4.95), libplasma3 (>= 4:4.4.4-2~), libqt4-declarative (>= 4:4.7.0~rc1), libqt4-opengl (>= 4:4.5.3), libqt4-xml (>= 4:4.5.3), libqtcore4 (>= 4:4.8.0), libqtgui4 (>= 4:4.8.0), libstdc++6 (>= 4.6), libtag1c2a (>= 1.5)
Filename: pool/main/p/plasma-mediacenter/plasma-mediacenter_0.9~git0b3f3ae3~quantal~ppa2_amd64.deb
Size: 129888


http://i.imgur.com/QyXU3.png


Links:

1. http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php?53973-FAQ-Free-Disk-Space-Regenerated

[Teunis]

Yes the Plasma-mediacenter (shell!) is less than 200 Kb.
But you also need to install Plasma-active and that's almost 25 Mb.

Although it's a pretty application and the video back end works fine but it doesn't have any configuration options like how to get rid of the huge icons with abbreviated text or pause or fast forward?
I'll keep using the SMPlayer front end for mplayer, hugely configurable, especially the hot keys.