On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 the mental interface of Michal Jeczalik Jr told: > * Joshua Kwan <joshk@triplehelix.org> wrote: > > > Michal Jeczalik Jr wrote: > >> mocp (music on console player) is a ncurses based console audio player > >> designed to be powerful and easy to use. > > How is this better than 'cplay'? > > I have installed cplay and here is my little review: > > * mocp is not a front-end, so it has no problems with pause, > rewinding and stop (there are some interruptions due to problems > with buffer), > * you can always detach mocp and attach again without any interruptions, > * there are less informations about a file in 'cplay' and not so many > configuration options like FormatString, StartInMusicDir and > others, > * next useful option in mocp is a possibility to turn off mmap() (it > really helps with NFS), > * rewinding is very slow in 'cplay' (front-end issue), > * time in mp3 files with VBR and without XING is incorrect > (again front-end issue), > * mocp can play all supported files using ALSA, > * finally, mocp has themes, so it is more colorful and userfriendly. > cplay is also good and has a few options that would be in mocp soon. I hope. > I have packaged moc and will try to upload when 2.2.0 final is released. moc packages can be found at: deb http://www.lxtec.de/debarchiv binary-powerpc/ deb http://www.lxtec.de/debarchiv binary-i386/ deb-src http://www.lxtec.de/debarchiv sources/ Ciao Elimar -- Obviously the human brain works like a computer. Since there are no stupid computers humans can't be stupid. There are just a few running with Windows or even CE ;-)
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