"Michael A. Peters" <mpeters@xxxxxxx> writes: > On 11/26/2004 01:22:21 PM, Dean Browning wrote: >> I am new to Fedora 3, and I was surprised to see that there was no >> mp3 player built in. >> >> What is the best mp3 management/player being used in Linux? I have >> 40GB to manage. > > That's a lot of mp3's - I'm sure the RIAA loves your business ;) There's nothing illegal in having 40G of files... > That being said - I'm a big fan of the GStreamer backend, I think it is > the right multimedia framework for desktop linux to use. With GStreamer > there are a couple of options - Rhythmbox ships with Fedora, but it has > an absolutely huge footprint on your screen, and I've had it take large > amounts of time scanning flac directories on startup (that may be > better now, been a long time since I used rhythmbox to play flac > files). Rhythmbox also won't play aac files. Not for me anyway. i have it down to 32x32 pixels or something like that ;-) first: once you've done managing your collection / playlist / station list and are satisfied with selection / playback option you can press F8 and you'll end up with smaller view (menu, four buttons, current track's title) It'll still use quite large font for title (which i don't mind). second: it has system tray icon, if you left click on it the main window disappears. if you right click on it you get little menu with stop / prev / next / show-hide window commands. if your mouse pointer simply hovers over the icon tooltip with track title appears. Not to discourage anybody from using other players, just like you i dislike mp3 players eating my screen ;-)
