Re: Looking for music player software

[marc <gmane@auxbuss.com>]

Philistine said...
> Hi,
> 
> I'm looking for a music player in Debian with some features, I
> did not yet find in the ones I tried (alsaplayer, beep,
> mp3blaster, quodlibet, rhythmbox, zinf). I did not try banshee
> ("55.2 MB of additional disk space will be used") nor amarok
> ("124MB..."). What I would like to see:
> 
> - most important: changing the speed without changing the pitch
> 
> - using a second output or sound card for "pre-listening"
> 
> - cross-fading
> 
> - search by artist/title/genre and by ranking
> 
> - nice to have: keeping track of intro/extro sequences
> 
> - UI: GTK+ or plain terminal preferred
> 
> Things I do not care about:
> 
> - any other media than locally stored OGG/MP3 files
> 
> - mobile music player devices
> 
> Is there such a program in Debian or at least in the free
> software universe? Many thanks in advance!

I would suggest giving Ableton a call and asking them to port Live! to 
Linux :-)

This is an interesting thread, and could I ask that you report back with 
your "final solution" when you get there.

-- 
Cheers,
Marc