Idea #1411: foobar lamip (not under wine) music player

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Written by PavelS the 29 Feb 08 at 13:59. Category: Multimedia.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New

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Hi

The only reason I am still on Windows is that there is no native music player like foobar for linux especially Gnome UI. I know there is Amarok for KDE but I myself a huge fan of Gnome. Anyway I need this music player to be just like foobar without having to run it under wine. I know there is something called lamip which is basically foobar, however, it would be very nice if it could be in apt because it is very tedious right now to get it up and running.

If you know of any other plays which will let me navigate through a music cue file and that will play FLAC/AAC and support 24 bit depth of the output then please let me know about it. I want to hear about it. If something like this is allready in ubuntu I would love to hear your opinion.

Thank you

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PreviousN wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 14:45

I used to love foobar2000. It's fast and really simple. I don't know why people aren't voting for this. Just because you don't use it doesn't mean it shouldn't be in the repositories.

I know you use program xyz but I don't, but I don't mind it being in the repositories.

PavelS wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 16:28

Do you have any other suggestions for something that's just about equivalent to foobar2000. I think people are not voting just because they don't usually play cue sheets. Anyway I do not understand why ppl are down voting to this.

acet wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 23:39

@PavelS
any other suggestions? why not Lamip as in the idea?:
http://fondriest.frederic.free.fr/realisations/lamip/

and I agree, foobar is by far the best music player I've used and I think that this should be voted for. It's a shame its not developed for linux, but something close to it like Lamip would be good to have in the repositories.

acet wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 23:52

oh wait, didnt realise it was you who submitted the idea ;)

Jarvis wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 09:39

I like foobar2000, it's too bad that we can't use it (or an equivalent, it is difficult to install lamip) in GNU/Linux.

UBfusion wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 21:56

Try Kaffeine. It's as powerful as KMplayer in windows and supports 24/96, spdif pass-through etc. I think it's the future.

psquared89 wrote on the 4 Mar 08 at 03:44

Would some of the people who have been voting this down please comments as to why? I think it's a great idea, I don't understand why it's been voted so low.

Truefire wrote on the 8 Mar 08 at 23:21

It's voted low because it's not backed by knowledge.
AmaroK can be used in Ubuntu(GNOME).

KDE and GNOME programs are interoperable.

sudo apt-get install amarok

done!

Jarvis wrote on the 11 Mar 08 at 23:22

but AmaroK eats too CPU and RAM...

allbluedream wrote on the 28 Mar 08 at 13:58

It's sad that this is voted down. I like AmaroK, but if foobar were natively available I probably wouldn't have tried AmaroK at all. They are different things, and foobar is the best combination of simplicity and functionality.

goodevilgenius wrote on the 29 Mar 08 at 01:02

I voted down because lamip doesn't appear to be stable enough yet. That's probably why it's not in the repositories.

staubi wrote on the 2 Apr 08 at 21:16

I also used Foobar back in the old MS days, but now I found gmusicbrowser which is pretty fast (even with huge collections), customisable and has a really friendly developer who is thankful for any ideas, help or feature requests!

Give it a try and you won't miss Foobar anymore.

joeally wrote on the 6 Apr 08 at 22:00

What about Exaile. Consider the gtk options there are some good players out there. The upcoming alpha of banshee looks good to. -1. Whats the point of wasting time on somthing thats already been done many times over

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