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scottslinux
May 7th, 2008, 08:04 AM
I just did a clean install of hardy and when I went to install beep media player using adept, it was not there. I enabled all of the repositories and then tried it in synaptic. No luck. the only version avail in hardy seems to be bmpx the experimental version which cannot be skinned. I am looking for the original. How can I install it without having to compile and without disrupting my repository list. Thanks for you help.


Scott

kesman
May 7th, 2008, 08:15 AM
Seems like it isn't supported by Hardy. Maybe try some other media player? For Winamp-like, try audacious.

vishzilla
May 7th, 2008, 08:25 AM
You can install Audacious, which is a fork of Beep. There is a BMPx in the repo, I haven't tried it out. Audacious is good.

scottslinux
May 7th, 2008, 05:59 PM
thanks for the quick reply. Can I skin audacious???

Scott

kesman
May 8th, 2008, 06:27 AM
Just a little google search and this is what I found:
http://audacious-media-player.org/index.php?title=Skins

DirtDawg
May 8th, 2008, 06:46 AM
Audacious is a better choice in most cases, but if you need or prefer beep for whatever reason, there are xmms (basically the same thing as beep) packages available. Links here (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=774461).

sujoy
May 8th, 2008, 07:19 AM
never used bmp, audacious is good enough, although IMO it doesn't seem to integrate that well with the rest of the apps.

btw, whats so special about bmp?

scottslinux
May 8th, 2008, 02:09 PM
Thank you everyone for all of the assistance. I was not ware of the lineage of the whole xmms, beep, audacious development. Audacious works very well and of course looks the same on the desktop. I just reinstalled back to gutsy from Hardy for stability reasons and in doing so have learned alot.

Thanks Again
Scott

ps2key
May 8th, 2008, 04:19 PM
Beep (BMPx) has a great GUI for radio streams. I don't have much time usually so I installed BMP from the gnome package app (deb I guess). It starts up fine. When I try to play a radio stream, BMP immediately closes. It worked great on the previous ubuntu version. I don't doubt that Audacious is a better player overall but BMPx met my needs well. I'll just have to get off my duff and see how to get streams playing.

rykel
June 9th, 2008, 02:11 AM
I am trying to install beep-media-player because I am trying to install mp3splt-gtk on Hardy, which requires beep-media-player. bmpx does NOT work as a substitute.

Any help?

scottslinux
June 9th, 2008, 02:49 AM
I have been using audacious and it integrates pretty well. It uses winamp skins so it looks just like bmp.

Scott

wawadave
September 1st, 2008, 10:12 PM
ok i had this same trouble and installed the debian one here
http://packages.debian.org/etch/i386/beep-media-player/download
solved that part of my problem

bit late for you but may help others trying to install mp3splt

optimix
September 5th, 2008, 09:01 AM
You can also try installing the latest version of mp3splt-gtk (0.5) which supports Audacious instead of Beep Media Player.

Too Late
September 5th, 2008, 09:40 AM
ok i had this same trouble and installed the debian one here
http://packages.debian.org/etch/i386/beep-media-player/download
solved that part of my problem

bit late for you but may help others trying to install mp3splt
The Ubuntu package which still exists in Feisty repos works fine in Hardy.
http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/i386/beep-media-player/download

That's not an absolute perfect player, but it's by far the best basic player I've used in Linux. And I've tried very many. For example, Audacious has much worse "response" in its buttons (=laggy) and there's also a volume control bug (hard to explain, but it's easy to find when you change the volume before and after you open a new file).