Foobar2000 alternative

[Jophish]

Hi there.

Back when I was running windows, I had a wonderful little program called Foobar, It was able to stream music from my home server (where I keep all my mp3s). I was trying to find an alternative for Ubuntu, a small media player that can keep an index of all the mp3 files on the slimserver, and stream them straight to my speakers.
I quite like the set up of rhythmbox, especially the cover art display, is rhythmbox able to look at directories on a LAN?

Thanks.

[mccord]

I was trying to find an alternative for Ubuntu, a small media player that can keep an index of all the mp3 files on the slimserver, and stream them straight to my speakers.

i missed foobar too after switching to linux, amarok is nice but a bit resource heavy for my old pc
personally i use mpd (music player daemon) and sonata as the frontend

you could have a look at gmusicbrowser, from what i hear it comes reasonably close to foobar

I quite like the set up of rhythmbox, especially the cover art display, is rhythmbox able to look at directories on a LAN?
Thanks.

can't think of a reason why it wouldn't work with mounted samba/nfs shares
you can find a howto for mounting samba (windows) shares here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=280473

[Jophish]

I managed to mount my server to a folder in my profile, however in order to do this every time, I think i need to edit fstab.
Hows this:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
# /dev/sda2
UUID=190eba17-6492-49fe-a8b4-f3b956987e3f /               ext2    relatime,errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /dev/sda5
UUID=dbcdadc2-fbbe-4b82-ac0e-ad963b53ec15 none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/scd0       /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0       0
/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0       0
#Music folders
//192.168.0.10/Public/music /home/jophish/Music smbfs auto 0 0

[Jophish]

I got the fstab to work ok, However gmusicbrowser was not able to play any music, as I can't set the volume to anything but -1. It claims that I am missing alsa-utils, although I have this, and have reinstalled. I can hear music everywhere else though.
Another thing, gmusicbrowser doesn't seem to quite cut it with 130,000+ songs on my database, Is there a different application that can handle this many songs?

[disturbedite]

i'm surprised no one has mentioned yet that foobar2000 works virtually perfectly with wine.

i use audacious myself though.

[texasjim]

Have a look at AMPACHE, it works great over my wireless LAN.
Jim Hayes

[Jophish]

I have since discovered Amarok, It seems to be working quite well, and I like the interface (just wish that the icons came in orange though).

Thanks anyway guys.

Also, If anyone reading this knows about configuring drivers for graphics cards, please take a look at this thread here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5183776
I need all the help I can get with it.

[sultanoswing]

I was about to mention Amarok. As an ex-Foobar2000 user myself, Amarok took a bit of getting used to, but it really is a very, very good program.

[jdorenbush]

you could have a look at gmusicbrowser, from what i hear it comes reasonably close to foobar

I have tried just about every audio player for Ubuntu and this is by far the best I have found. Especially if you have lots of music, this is the easiest for organization, it also has a mass renaming option to. Real good program. It has a few visual bugs, but nothing that would stop me from using it. I definitely recommend this!

[lakersforce]

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