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Re: any good mp3 player?



On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 03:22:16AM -0400, Oleg wrote:
> On Saturday 12 October 2002 11:59 pm, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 05:24:05PM -0700, Bill Wohler wrote:
> > >   xmms. Plays mp3s, ogg, wav, CDs, talks to esd. I just point it to the
> > >   root of my music directory, click on the Random button and let it play
> > >   for days. Very nice.
> >
> > That's what I love about xmms, it's fairly featureful and smart.
> > xmms-goodnight is also great:  Get home from work, browse for a while
> > and read email, then throw on the goodnight plugin and set the volume
> > to about 35% and go to sleep.  About an hour after I enable it, XMMS
> > fades out the volume, stops the music, resets the volume to where it
> > was before the fade, quits and kills afterstep, logging me out.  If it
> > weren't for that, I'd have to use my clock radio to play Portland's
> > lackluster music selection on the main stations, or morning news on
> > the public ones, which don't seem to start playing music until 10 or so.
> 
> A simple program/script can do that. I actually wrote one that did something 
> like this. I could run it together with mpg123 from cron to gradually 
> _increase_ the volume and wake me up in the morning.

Don't forget about xmms-alarm:)

-rob

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