[Dynobot]

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nice! When I try that I'll let you know. I'm sure my almost total lack of knowledge of the linux console is going to make me ask many questions. Or I just may need a super idiot guide with step by step instructions including how to skin it LOL

Sure, but the clients are more like what different Browsers are to the Internet than skins.
 
For example you have the Internet, and you have Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer, etc.
 
MPD is the working muscle part of the player that is ON in the background totally unseen.  The clients can act as an interface to MPD and control it.
 
When you are ready.
 
I suppose you still have a lot to get used too yet, with the new OS...take your time.

 

[MrSlim]

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do any of the linux music players support vst plugins?

 
I would say no to that, because the music players are just playing for playing music files.  You might be looking for something like Ardour (http://ardour.org/), which can support VSTs.  I use Pianoteq natively under Linux.  It works very well

 

[MrSlim]

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When I switched to Ubuntu for music playing on an NC10 netbook, the biggest problem was finding a player that would cope with gapless and replaygain for FLAC. After trying many I settled on mpd / gmpc, which works a treat. Rhythmbox was OK as well. I couldn't find anything to rival EAC for ripping, so still rip under Windows.

You should check out RubyRipper if you want a ripper that works like EAC for Linux:  http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Rubyripper
It has a GUI and a CLI mode, so you can run it on a headless music server and just rip things on the command line via ssh.
 

 

[rawrster]

MPD is more of a background player than your typical player such as foobar, winamp, etc. I'm not sure it would have any skins but some gui clients may have it but I highly doubt it.
 
It's pretty simple once you get the hang of it. The most difficult part is setting up the permissions and after that it's pretty simple and you just have to choose your gui client of your choice. Also it requires all your music to be under one main directory.

 

[donunus]

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I would say no to that, because the music players are just playing for playing music files.  You might be looking for something like Ardour (http://ardour.org/), which can support VSTs.  I use Pianoteq natively under Linux.  It works very well

nah, all I want is a music player like foobar. All I really need the vst for is the headfit crossfeed plugin

 

[donunus]

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You should check out RubyRipper if you want a ripper that works like EAC for Linux:  http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Rubyripper
It has a GUI and a CLI mode, so you can run it on a headless music server and just rip things on the command line via ssh.
 

by the way how do i install this? is it the same as dynobot's instructions on the previous page for installing deadbeef? so what do i type instead of alexey-smirnov/deadbeef for example for this program on the command line?
 

 

[donunus]

actually just installed it since it was in mints software package but if i were to do so manually how would I do it if I may ask.

 

[MrSlim]

Check which version Mints has. You can do that in Synaptic, or whatever they use for an apt-get GUI. The added repository has the latest stable version.
 
Here's how to install it manually according to this page: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=799621
 
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:aheck/ppa

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install rubyripper-gtk
 
I just installed it that way on my work desktop.  Works like a charm
 
Under Ubuntu 10.04, the GUI gets installed under the Sound And Video menu.
If you want to run it from the command line, rrip_gui will start the GUI and rrip_cli will run the command line version.
 
If you want to do it totally from scratch, there are about 23 dependencies..  Apt takes care of all that(thank god.. I've been through Dependency hell too many times to want to repeat it..)

 

[Mangemongen]

just wanna say thanks to dynobot for the great homepage, will use!
 
 
http://sites.google.com/site/computeraudioorg/home

 

[nizarp]

I use amarok player to listen to music in my linux pc at home and at the same time i use foobar 2k in my office pc running windows. I felt that amarok is marginally better than the foobar in terms of SQ. But there might be differences in the sound hardware that I am not sure though.

 

[Dynobot]

I think the last bit of fine tuning can be done with adjusting the buffer and period sizes as well as the times.  Although it seems like fine tuning the sonic affects can be more drastic than different players.
 

 

[Dynobot]

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just wanna say thanks to dynobot for the great homepage, will use!
 
 

http://sites.google.com/site/computeraudioorg/home

Thanks Mangemongen,  if you use it and have any problems please let me know.  Even if you think some points need to be clarified.
 

 

[Squa7ch]

I always used Amarok, favorite audio player ever...k3b for burning things, don't believe I ever ripped anything in linux so couldn't tell yah, sorry .

 

[Dynobot]

Donunus,  did you ever get everything going with Linux.  What player etc did you decide on????
 

 

[Jauzef]

You should try banshee, its the best music player for gnome envo, imo. If you like foobar, you can still use it via WINE. Happy listening!