Comments on: The Quest For A Decent Music Player

By: An Update on the Music Player Quest | The Changelog

An Update on the Music Player Quest | The Changelog — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:13:37 +0000

[...] written a few times (parts 1, 2, 3) about my annoyance at music players. I’d come down to two finalists to consider: [...]

By: More Bumps on the Music Player Quest | The Changelog

More Bumps on the Music Player Quest | The Changelog — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:26:41 +0000

[...] a few days ago, I wrote about my failure to find a good music player. Since then, I’ve made some [...]

By: terah

terah — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:06:35 +0000

Cliff, sadly this all started with my innocent request. I wanted a new CD player for the kitchen, smaller than what we currently have & preferably one that would mount under the cabinets. Now I’m getting something that is geek-approved and John promises he’ll teach me how to use…

By: cliff

cliff — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:53:07 +0000

I can see I’m not equipped to be in this conversation but I will say you can talk to people my age and the ipod and such is when they got left behind. I have a cd player and no idea which of the 4 million products is next so I buy nothing and listen to AM radio.

By: Russ

Russ — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:06:17 +0000

I’ve used Rhythmbox with my iPod Nano for quite some time and haven’t run into the problems you describe. Something is going on…

By: TL

TL — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:09:58 +0000

I suggest buying a Cowon iAudio instead of iPod. Cowon even advertises Linux support in their web site. The players support Ogg Vorbis and Flac files.

http://www.cowonglobal.com/

By: Onkar

Onkar — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:16:32 +0000

Please change the title of you are post. It seems you are not looking for decent music player but a decent ipod manager software. Because your reviews have no mention about library management, crossfade support, easy to use interface, internet radio, UPnP, podcast etc. These I believe are the features of decent music player/manager.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:51:08 +0000

Try Hipo for iPod management and mpd/ncmpc (or sonata) for playing stuff. Works for me

By: glitsj16

glitsj16 — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 08:45:39 +0000

Hi, have you checked floola recently? Floola seems to have a prety broad feature set, hope it can be of some use.

By: jonathan

jonathan — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 07:47:03 +0000

Your comments about rhythmbox suggest that it was treating your ipod as a generic usb player – in particular, I’m pretty sure we’ve never used trash directories on ipods. I don’t know why it would have been doing this, but I’m sure we could figure it out quickly enough on IRC or bugzilla.