Audacious es un reproductor de audio disponible como software libre para la familia Unix. Es una bifurcación o fork de Beep Media Player 0.9.7.1. El programador William "nenolod" Pitcock abandonó el proyecto BMP después de que el equipo de programación original decidiera detener su desarrollo con miras a crear la siguiente generación llamada BMPx.

Audacious reproduce los formatos MP3, OGG, WAV y Flac, entre otros, además tiene soporte para las pieles o skins de Winamp 2 (también conocido como Winamp Classic). Se espera dar mejor soporte a los skins del tipo free-form (forma libre) en la serie 1.3.x

También es necesario el paquete Audacious-plugins que contiene extensiones para reproducir formatos de sonido propietarios o no libres como es el caso del MP3.

Web: http://audacious-media-player.org

Immer wieder Verzögerungen von mehreren Tagen oder sogar Verlust der Titel. Wenn ich die (natürlich korrekten) Login-Daten mal wieder neu eingebe, kommt manchmal die Meldung, dass Benutzername und Passwort nicht stimmen. Was nicht sein kann, weil ich mich mit eben diesen Daten noch eine Minute vorher auf der Website anmelden konnte.

Jetzt habe ich mir also einen Ersatz gesucht. Gefunden habe ich Sonata als Frontend für mpd, mal sehen wie ich damit klarkomme.

Natürlich enthalten ist in Sonata die audioscrobbler-Unterstützung, das war ja das Hauptkriterium. Ebenfalls vorhanden ist eine Musikbibliothek. Das hatte audacious nicht, dafür habe ich mir eine eigene in php programmiert, Tag-basiert. Mal sehen, wie ich das jetzt umsetzen kann. Ich will ungern alles neu in mehrere Playlists einsortieren müssen. Ebenfalls besser: weniger CPU-Last, auch wenn das wohl kaum ins Gewicht fällt. Außerdem gefällt mir der Name des Players.

Zusatz: weil natürlich nur gescrobblet wird, wenn Sonata läuft, hab ich gleich noch scmpc installiert. Dieses Programm kann ebenfalls als Dämon laufen und die gespielten Titel an last.fm weiterleiten. Die Dokumentation ist etwas dürftig, aber immerhin ist ein init-Script dabei. So geht mir jetzt kein Titel mehr durch die Lappen.

I just read this and well, I don't know what to say. It was amazing. I've known her for months now and often times have had her support when I needed it most. All of her writings are beautiful but this was...damn.

Here have a look and then go read the rest at her site. ;-)

I am only just learning of the pain you’ve been through. I uncover new things every day. With each new memory, my rage burns deeper. You don’t believe me, but it wasn’t your fault. None of it was & none of it is. You are your only responsibility, fuck the rest of them. You have to protect yourself. You feel like you didn’t protect yourself before, I know, but we can change that by doing it now. It’s okay, you did what you thought would be the safest option, the option that would make it stop & go away quicker. But now it’s back, & it’s back with a vengeance. It’s not going to go away again honey. It can’t.

I know you may not believe this right now, quite like you didn’t then either, but you were not the one in control. He was the adult. He was the only one able to give consent. So stop blaming yourself. Instead, see that he was the one who chose, he acted alone & he shattered the world around you. He thought he would get away with it. He honestly thought he could carry on his dream family lifestyle & take this secret to his grave. Well, an early grave it shall be, but a secret no longer.

Audacious Aria- A letter to Myself

YAng perlu dilakukan :

1. Pertama masuk command terminal lalu ketik

zaki@zaki-laptop:~$ sudo su
[sudo] password for zaki:
root@zaki-laptop:/home/zaki# apt-get install audacious
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
audacious is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 204 not upgraded.

Dikarenakan uda install..

2. Setelah di install kita seacrh di google skin winamp atupun xxms setlah di download skin tersebut

3. Kita chmod 777 /usr/share/audacious/skin >> tujuannya untuk bisa copykan kesitu

4. Setelah kita copykan lalu kita buka audacius lalu klik kanan pada audacious tersebut pilih preferences klik skin..pilih skin yang telah di DL

Wsalam

Primer script Agregar-a-audacious:
Creen un archivo text/plain en mi caso con gedit y agreguen estas lineas:


archivos="${NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS}"

echo "${archivos}" | while read archivo;
do
if [ -n "${archivo}" ];
then
audacious --enqueue "${archivo}"
fi;
done

Lo guardan y le dan el nombre con que quieren que aparezca yo le puse Agregar-a-audacious
Luego se paran sobre el archivo, van a properties, permisos y seleccionan Permitir ejecutar el archivo como un programa.

Segundo script Agregar-todo:
Mismo procedimiento que el anterior pero ponen estas lineas:


archivos=${NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS}
echo "${archivos}"
for archivo in "${archivos}"; do
audacious --enqueue "${archivo}"
done


Lo guardan con el nombre que quieran, en mi caso le puse Agregar-todo
Le dan permiso como el anterior y listo!

Ahora para probarlos se paran sobre algun tema, boton derecho, scripts, Agregar a audacious o Agregar todo!

Si no les resulta, sepan disculpar, es la primera vez que hago esto. Si alguien le hace alguna modificacion, estaria bueno que la postee en comentarios!

Saludos!

libgtk1.2_1.2.10-18.1build2_i386.deb

libgtk1.2-common_1.2.10-18.1build2_all.deb

libglib1.2ldbl_1.2.10-19build1_i386.deb

Una volta installate le dipendenze scaricate il deb di Xmms cliccando qui ed installatelo.

xmms_1.2.10%2B20070601-1build2_i386.deb

Vi lascio comunque la procedura di installazione da sorgenti che avevo seguito io.

Per prima cosa abbiamo bisogno dei pacchetti per compilare Xmms. Aprite un terminale e digitate:

sudo apt-get install autotools-dev automake1.9 libtool gettext libasound2-dev libaudiofile-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libglib1.2-dev libgtk1.2-dev libesd0-dev libice-dev libmikmod2-dev libogg-dev libsm-dev libvorbis-dev libxxf86vm-dev libxml-dev libssl-dev build-essential make

Create una cartella dove vi pare e nominatela per esempio "installa":

mkdir ~/installa

spostavi in questa nuova cartella:

cd ~/installa

e digitate da terminale:

wget http://xmms.org/files/1.2.x/xmms-1.2.11.tar.gz

estraiamo l'archivio scaricato:

tar xvf xmms-1.2.11.tar.gz

spostatevi nella cartella creata:

cd xmms-1.2.11/

compilate digitanto:

./configure --prefix=/usr

poi:

make

e per installare:

sudo make install

Finita l'installazione potete cancellare la cartella "installa":

cd ..
rm -rf ~/installa

Adesso non vi resta che creare una voce "Xmms" nel menù applicazioni.
Il comando per aprire Xmms è: xmms.

Però ho scoperto che esiste un programma identico ad Xmms che si chiama Audacious. Questo piccolo player è uguale in tutto e per tutto ad Xmms, ha anche la stessa skin nera e blu che a me fa impazzire. In più Audacious ha un menù graficamente molto più bello di quello di Xmms.
Per installare Audacious aprite un terminale e digitate:

sudo apt-get install audacious

Successivamente aprite Audacious, fate clic con il tasto destro del mouse nella finestra del player e nel menù a tendina che appare selezionate la vece "Impostazioni".

Nella finestra che appare, sotto la voce "Skin", selezionare "Refugee".

Chiudete la finestra ed ecco a voi Xmms/Audacious.

Emanuele

sudo apt-get install streamtuner

Questa è come si presenta la schermata principale di scelta dei canali.

Streamtuner è una specie di raccolta di frequenze radio, per farla breve vi permette di selezionare una fonte di streaming audio (come Vinrgin Radio, RDS, ecc.) e di riprodurla nel vostro player preferito, sia esso Audacious, Rhythmbox o Banshee. Di default, Streamtuner è settato per riprodurre il flusso in ricezione con XMMS, che tutti abbiamo notato, però, svanire misteriosamente dalla vasta raccolta software standard di Hardy, sostituito da un indecente Esperanza e XMMS2 che vi sconsiglio. Se vi piaceva troppo la semplicità e la facilità d'uso di XMMS, allora installate subito Audacious che addirittura contiene tra le skins predefinite, la stessa che usava XMMS. Ora per indirizzare il playback sul nostro player andiamo in Edit - Preferences di Streamtuner e nella sezione Applications sotto la voce Command sulla destra, sostituite tutte le diciture "xmms" col nome del player che avete scelto per ascoltare la radio, facendo attenzione però a non sovrascrivere "%q".

Ecco come si presentano i comandi se per esempio scegliamo Rhythmbox (vi ricordo che è già installato sulla nostra distro) come player.

Cliccate su Chiudi ed ora basterà fare doppio-click sulla stazione radio preferita per ascoltare lo streaming audio. Nulla di più semplice! Personalmente, scelgo quasi sempre tra i canali presenti in SHOUTcast, molto ricco.

Non è finita qui! Se volete, potete anche registrare (si, proprio come si faceva con le vecchie audiocassette nei gloriosi stereo degli anni '80 :D ) sul vostro Hard-Disk la canzone che state ascoltando! Basta installare Streamripper sempre da terminale:

sudo apt-get install streamripper

Sta volta però non apparirà nessuna voce nel menù Applicazioni di Ubuntu, per registrare dovete farlo direttamente da Streamtuner cliccando sull'icona cerchietto con scritto "Record" per avviare il salvataggio dello streaming. Streamripper funziona esclusivamente da terminale, quindi chiudetelo solo quando volete terminare la registrazione! Troverete le canzoni pronte ad essere ascoltate quando volete nella vostra home ;) .

Buon Ascolto!

Today, scrolling through the aimless and vast number of software present on ubuntu repositories, i came across audacious..Checking out there website, www.audacious-media-player.org ,i came to realize that this project was most likely discontinued. since the most lastest news bulletin on the site was an year ago.

But regardless of all that, i decided to try it out, since it reminded me of the classic winamp 2.x that i used to use and love..Installation went along smoothly, load of audacious was pretty fast, using only 2-5% of cpu resources... No hassle!!

Although it doesn't have a media library, like exaile,Amarok etc..its simplicity is its greatest asset.

Although audacious comes with a very basic skin just like winamp 2.x did, downloading some skins off

www.winamp.com
www.deviantart.com
www.gnome-look.org

makes audicious quite presentable...

For those who require a simple player, without any playlist management then audacious is it!

* Screenshots of some skins for audacious*

Mp3blaster works in a similar way to Xmms or WinAmp, there are play and stop buttons, the shuffle and repeat mode option and so on, as well as a menu-based playlist. It supports mp3, ogg, vorbis, wav, and sid audio files. Also it offers the possibility to divide a playlist into albums. There is also a simple mixer utility.

The quick way to install it (in Ubuntu) :

nongeek@mma:~$ sudo apt-get install mp3blaster

You can always download the latest version from SourcefForge.net.
I use the player in the virtual console (CTRL-ALT-F1), so no matter what I do in the X session (e.g. logging out to change the user) the music it's running and it's costing me almost no resources.
By the way, what Mp3 Player do you use?

Music Applet, es un applet para el panel de Gnome que nos permite controlar desde el mismo panel una gran cantidad de reproductores de musica...

Los reproductores soportados por Music Applet son los siguientes...

* Amarok
* Audacious
* Banshee
* Exaile
* MPD
* Muine
* Quod Libet
* Rhythmbox
* VLC
* XMMS
* XMMS2

XMMS:Digamos que es el Winamp de Gnome, sencillo, pequeño, soporta múltiples formatos y plugins y se puede personalizar con varios Skins.

Audacious: Para mi es una versión mejorada y más estética de XMMS. Reproduce los formatos MP3, OGG, WAV y Flac, entre otros, además tiene soporte para las pieles o skins de Winamp 2 (también conocido como Winamp Classic).

BMPX: En realidad es el sucesor de BMP un software basado en XMMS también. Este también soporta los skin de Winamp pero además funciona más bien como una biblioteca al estilo de iTunes. Soporta distintas extensiones de audio como: Mp3, Ogg, Mpc, Flac, Wma, Wav, Mod, Cdda..entre otras.

Noatun: Es un reproductor multimedia del proyecto KDE. Noatun está basado en una arquitectura de plugins, los cuales pueden ser cargados y descargados durante la ejecución. Los plugins en Noatun se encargan de todo lo "utilizable" de la aplicación. Sus categorías son: interfaces gráficas, listas de reproducción, visualizaciones y otros. (Texto extraído de la Wikipedia)

Banshee: Es un reproductor de audio para sistemas operativos Linux, que usa Mono y Gtk#. Además usa la plataforma multimedia GStreamer para reproducir, codificar y decodificar formatos tales como Ogg, MP3 y otros. Banshee puede reproducir e importar CDs de audio y reproducir y sincronizar la colección con iPod. Adicionalmente, es capaz de enviar las canciones reproducir para compartir gustos musicales en Last.fm. (Texto extraído de la Wikipedia)

Amarok: El reproductor más famoso del Sistema Unix. Está orientado más bien para el entorno KDE y muchos lo toman como alternativa para el iTunes de Apple. Pueden ver más características desde su sitio web o en la Wikipedia.

Listen: Es la alternativa de iTunes para Gnome. Funciona como biblioteca, grabador de CD entre otras cosas. Se pueden ver las carátulas de los albums, obtener información de la canción que se reproduce desde Wikipedia, así como la letra de la misma, también reproduce radio online mediante streaming además de que tiene acceso directo a la información en Last.FM.

En primer lugar pasamos a descargar el pack de iconos para el applet de aquí. Acto seguido crearemos tres lanzadores personalizados, para ello nos situamos sobre el panel y oprimimos con el segundo botón para seleccionar la opción Añadir al panel. En la ventana que emerge pulsamos en Lanzador Personalizado, con lo que se abre otra ventana para adjuntar el icono asociado a un comando y a un nombre. Ahora vamos por partes, disponemos de tres controles para integrar al panel, de ahí que para cada función del applet tengamos que especificar un nombre y un comando, ademas de seleccionar el icono correspondiente.

Para la función de Reproducir/Parar en el campo Nombre pondremos Reproducir/Parar, en Comando escribiremos audacious -t y luego hacemos clic en el icono para seleccionar del disco duro la imagen correspondiente de entre las descargadas anteriormente. Del mismo modo hacemos con las funciones Anterior (audacious -r en el campo comando) y Siguiente (audacious -f en el campo comando) creando ambos lanzadores personalizados.

Por otra parte, existe otro applet que no da soporte para Audacious ni Amarok pero si para otros varios tales como Muine, Banshee, Rythmbox, Exaile, MPD, Quod Libet, XMMS y XMMS2:

• sudo aptitude install music-applet

Clic con el botón derecho en el panel, Añadir applet, buscamos Music Applet en la sección de Applets Multimedia. Existe la posibilidad de instalar la última versión de music-applet, la cual ya si que trae soporte para Audacious, para descargarla ir a la web oficial aquí.

Nic prostszego. Poszukalem gdzies na forum winampa i znalazlem. Klasyczny Windowsowy winamp pod linuxem :)

Jak kazda skorke dla Audaciousa rozpakowac do

/usr/share/audacious/Skins

Skorka dla Audaciousa do pobrania stąd.

http://www.speedyshare.com/695319490.html

A moze komus potrzebna skorki Modern Winamp 5 Skin, choc teoretycznie przeznaczona dla XMMS'a to w Audacious'ie tez powinna dobrze wygladac (sam na razie nie sprawdzalem, ale niedlugo to zrobie).

Znajdziecie ja choćby tutaj:

LINK

apt-get install audacious

Codec Support

* MP3
* AAC, AAC+
* Vorbis
* FLAC
* Wavpack
* Musepack
* TTA
* WMA
* ALAC
* 150 different module formats
* Several chiptune formats: AY, GBS, GYM, HES, KSS, NSF, NSFE, SAP, SPC, VGM, VGZ, VTX
* Playstation Audio: PSF1, MiniPSF1
* Ad-lib chiptunes via AdPlug library
* Microsoft ADPCM, RIFF .wav data, 18+ different other WAV formats provided by sndfile plugin.
* MIDI via native OS synthesizer control or TiMidity.
* CD Audio

Output system support

* OSS (most UNIXes, Linux)
* ALSA (Linux)
* 4.2BSD/SunOS audio system (Solaris)
* CoreAudio (MacOS)
* ESound support
* PulseAudio support
* JACK support

Transcoding support

* WAV
* FLAC
* Vorbis
* MP3

Effect Processing

* Can function as a LADSPA host (as far as we know, we're the only player that can do this out of the box)
* Audio Compression plugin (AudioCompressor AGC) to keep volume normalized at a specific level
* Echo enhancing plugin
* Stereo separation plugin
* Voice Removal plugin
* Sound stretching plugin

Visualization

* Paranormal Visualization Studio -- a plugin like AVS
* ProjectM -- a plugin like Milkdrop
* Blur Scope
* Spectrum Analyzer
* RockLight -- a stroboscope for Thinkpad and Macintosh lights

Extra Plugins

* Scrobbler Plugin -- a plugin that enables you to listen to Last.FM streams and submit tracks to Last.FM
* Song Change -- a plugin that executes scripts at the beginning, end of songs and the end of a playlist
* EvDev-Plug -- a plugin that allows you to control Audacious with a gamepad or joystick
* Status Icon -- a plugin that allows you to shrink Audacious down to the system tray
* Audacious OSD -- a plugin that announces songs for you
* Alarm -- a plugin that can schedule playback at a given time each day (like an Alarm Clock)

Streaming support

* MP3, Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, AAC+ via IceCast/ShoutCast
* Any format supported via normal HTTP

Edit: ho fatto un pò di giri sulla rete per cercare di importare i file EQF di Winamp, ma Audacious non vuole proprio saperne. Eccola la soluzione:

[Equalizer preset]
Preamp=0
Band0=8
Band1=4
Band2=-4.8
Band3=-8
Band4=-2.4
Band5=4
Band6=8
Band7=10.4
Band8=10.4
Band9=10.4

Copiare il testo di sopra, salvarlo in un file e importarlo su Audacious.

You can find the first part here.

11. Deluge BitTorrent Client - Best BitTorrent client for Ubuntu.

Download

12. Audacious - Music player based on XMMS that looks like Winamp, uses Winamp skins and has a lot of plugins available.

To install: sudo apt-get install audacious

13. Exaile - Music player that suppose to be similar to KDE's Amarok, but for GTK+ and written in Python. I can't make up my mind if i should use Audacious or Exaile, so i put them both here :D

To install: sudo apt-get install exaile

14. gtk - RecordMyDesktop - Records your desktop and saves it, so you can post it to youtube or whatever.

To install: sudo apt-get install gtk-recordmydesktop

15. Envy - Auto install nvidia and ati drivers for Ubuntu.

Get it from here.

16. Ubuntu Tweak - Some tweaks for Ubuntu, like making the drives not show up on your desktop.

Download

17. Yakuake - Terminal window that drops down, Quake-style, when you press a key.

Download

18. BootUp-Manager - Choose what stars when you boot up into Ubuntu.

To install: sudo apt-get install bum

19. Conky - Desktop app that posts system monitoring info onto the desktop of your Ubuntu.

To install: sudo apt-get install conky

To configure it, make a configuration file in your home directory (Ex:-/home/ubuntuadmin)

called: .conkyrc

And paste config file you like from here (you can also find some screen-shots there).

To make it start with your system, and also make it integrate well, you'll need to make a delay startup. You can create a file called .conky-startup.sh and paste this into it:

#!/bin/bash
sleep 15 && conky ;

then run in terminal: chmod +x .conky-startup.sh

after that, in System > Preferences > Session: Startup programs, click add and browse for .conky-startup.sh , add it and that's it.

Here is a screenshot of my conky :D :

20. msttcorefonts - this is not a piece of software, but a tutorial to make fonts in Ubuntu antialiased, like in Windows.

You cand find all the fonts and other stuff needed and the tutorial here.

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Note: to be able to install, you need to make sure that you have a “universe” and “multiuniverse” mirror in your /etc/apt/sources.list (after that, to install most software you just need to type in the command).

kalo gak bisa anda bisa ketik perintah gedit /etc/apt/sources.list bila sources.list anda tidak sama dengan yg dibawah ini :

deb http://mirror.optus.net/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted
deb http://mirror.optus.net/ubuntu/ gutsy multiverse
deb http://mirror.optus.net/ubuntu/ gutsy universe
deb http://mirror.optus.net/ubuntu/ gutsy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://mirror.optus.net/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates main restricted
deb http://mirror.optus.net/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates multiverse
deb http://mirror.optus.net/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates universe

deb-src http://mirror.optus.net/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted
deb-src http://mirror.optus.net/ubuntu/ gutsy multiverse
deb-src http://mirror.optus.net/ubuntu/ gutsy universe
deb-src http://mirror.optus.net/ubuntu/ gutsy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://mirror.optus.net/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates main restricted
deb-src http://mirror.optus.net/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates multiverse
deb-src http://mirror.optus.net/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates universe

deb http://mirror.optus.net/ubuntu/ gutsy-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://mirror.optus.net/ubuntu/ gutsy-security main restricted universe multiverse

silahkan kopi ke gedit dengan cara buka perintah gedit pada terminal lalu klik paste dan save dengan nama source.list pada direktori etc/apt gampang kan

So how do you do this?

Software Synth, AMIDI Plugin with FluidSynth Backend

This is good for computers that do not have a sound card capable of MIDI playback.

First install Audacious and extras

sudo apt-get install audacious audacious-plugins audacious-plugins-extra

Now open Audacious and right click anywhere on Audacious to bring up the menu. Go to Preference. Click on the Plugins tab and highlight the AMIDI-Plug plugin. Then click Preferences and select the FluidSynth backend. Now select the FluidSynth Backend tab to configure it. You're going to need to find a general MIDI soundfont. There's plenty available out there. Now you need to add the location of the soundfont (.SF2) to the SoundFont settings. Now click OK. You should now be able to play back MIDIs :)

Hardware Synth, AMIDI Plugin with ALSA Backend

This is a little more tricky and you need to have a sound card that is capable of MIDI playback. Any card that uses the emu10k1 driver (e.g. Sound Blaster Audigy 2 and 4) should work since they are capable of loading soundfont wave tables into the sound card.
First let's install the necessary item

sudo apt-get install audacious audacious-plugins audacious-plugins-extra awesfx

Now open Audacious and right click anywhere on it to bring up the menu. Go to Preferences and select the Plugins tab. Highlight the AMIDI-Plug plugin and click on Preferences. Highlight the ALSA Backend. You can configure extra options for the ALSA backend by clicking on the ALSA Backend tab, but the defaults should be fine. Click OK and close the Preferences dialog. Now you're going to need a SoundFont. If you have a Sound Blaster Audigy check the installation CD. There should be some soundfonts on there. Copy them to your hard drive somewhere. Now open a terminal and cd to the directory where you put them

cd /path/to/soundfont/

Now load it into the sound card with asfxload

asfxload soundfont.SF2

Now you can close the terminal and go back to Audacious. You should now be able to play MIDI files off the hardware. The only slight inconvenience to this is that when you reboot you will have to reload the soundfont before playing MIDIs.

I've made a screencast of both ways to do this if you need to see it visually ;)

Just be warned the first half came out really loud for some reason, so you might want to turn your volume down a bit. :lol:

http://www.mediafire.com/?8bdddtxvo1l

Description:

Type: winamp/xmms
Formats supportés: ogg, flac, mp3, mp4, mpc, ape, wv, wav etc.
Scripts/Plugins: non/oui
Replaygain: oui (selon le format)
Notes/Scores: non/non
Streaming: oui
Editeur de tags: oui (piste par piste)
Egaliseur Graphique: oui
Scrobbler: oui
Listes de lecture: oui
Listes de lectures Intelligentes: non
Navigateur: non
Skins: winamp skins
Sorties: ALSA, PulseAudio, JACK, Arts, OSS, eSound, Null, etc.
Autres: supporte énormément de plugins (notamment LADSPA)

Critique:

Audacious est un excellent lecteur basés sur le style xmms/winamp. Style qui a su s'imposer depuis des dizaines d'années offrant une stabilité, une flexibilité et une rapidité inégalée. Les innombrables plugins, l'égaliseur graphique et le large choix de moteurs audio font de ce petit lecteur un petit bijou pour les oreilles.

Contrairement à xmms, qui demande l'installation de nombreux paquets pour bénéficier de toute la puissance du lecteur, l'installation d'Audacious est simple. Le maniement des options y est également simplifiée.

Un seul point faible, typique de ce type de lecteurs: l'absence de navigateur bloquera un peu l'utilisation sur de larges collections. Il demande une collection bien organisée pour pouvoir s'y retrouver.

Installation

Dernière version: 1.4.5 disponible sur le site.

[sourcecode language='css']sudo apt-get install audacious audacious-crossfade audacious-plugins audacious-plugins-extra audacious-plugins-ugly[/sourcecode]

I've been using Linux since... what? 2005-2006 or so, when Ubuntu Edgy was around... of course I've tried Mandrake (now known as Mandriva) 10.1 back in 2002-2003... it was a really good experience, but Ubuntu really pwns them all.

HOWEVER, I've figured that this "Linux freedom" isn't freedom at all. When I use Linux, I feel trapped in a cage, I feel as if I can't breath, but why?. The reason is simple:

"Liberty is based on the freedom in which you can do what you want, when you want, how you want, in the way you want."

What do I mean with this and Linux? isn't Linux freedom of doing things your way?... it could be one point. Aren't you free to do things in the way you want in Linux? so says Gentoo/Slackware/<Insert any "./configure && make" hardcore distro here>... well that's anoyher point. There's also freedom as in free software, free software as in free beer, but I'm taking about the possibilities of doing stuff your way. Sometimes I feel Linux isn't ready for me.

I've been using Ubuntu x64 since Feisty, and I must say the change from Feisty to Gutsy was enormous (and really awesome!) but I've noticed I'm not in a free environment when sometimes a program just randomly closes, and I have to open a terminal (ctrl+alt+del anyone?), type "ps -ax", find the process ID of the program which is hanged and type "kill -9 ID"... Jesus, we're in the 2007 man! :/...

In terms of user-friendlyness, Windows wins all the way. I know, it even hurts to say it when I'm almost all for open-source and Linux, but simple tasks become absolutely ridiculous in Linux, sometimes. And I won't go about audio/video converting/editing or trying to play MIDI files, logging into MSN or trying to listen to any Shoutcast radio station. Oh, and did I mention audio/video converting/editing already?.

I'm gonna make a small list here, which I hope it gets around the world and some effort is put on the elements in it (hopefully). This, is coming from someone who has been using computers since he was 5 years old. I've used MS-DOS 5.5/6.0/6.22, Windows 3.1, 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista (Ewwww), Debian Sarge 3, Knoppix 3, Mandrake 10.1, RedHat, Slackware, Zenslack, Zipslack, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Fluxbuntu... and the only OS "ready" for me would be XP, if it wasn't because I'm in love with Compiz :P.

So, Linux will be ready for me when they...

1. Fix the damn fonts: FIX THE DAMN FONTS DAMMIT xD... no, really, fix the damn fonts. I can't believe that at 1280x1024 (Gnome/KDE) I'm having the same screen real-state that I have in 800x600 in XP. That's the first thing I change everytime I install any Linux distro, they're so damn ugly and make my screen look BLOATED, and by bloated I mean HUGE. Choosing Bitstream Vera Sans 8px or installing the Microsoft TrueType Core Fonts package and choosing Arial 8px and disabling antialiasing for font rendering is really a relief...
2. 100-pixel spacing between buttons: Ok, it's no 100 pixels, but it's a good 20-30 separation between menu items / window buttons / controls / gadgets / ninjas. Even with the small fonts, I need to find a good GTK theme in gnome-look.org (I highly recommend Lyrae's themes!) that keeps an almost-to-none separation, say 2-5 pixels between window elements, now that's good, and it gives you more screen real-state.
3. Fasten the GUI: The GUI must be fast. Hella fast. Did I mention fast GUI already? it must be fast. Seriously, the GUI is SLOW, SLUGGISH SLOW. I can't believe that with my 3.2Ghz / 512Mb RAM / NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 AGP8X 128Mb the interface is damn slow. It could be either it GTK or QT apps, they're still slow. It could be with or without Compiz, they're still slow. It could be the propietary NVIDIA driver, free NV driver, or VESA... it's still slow. And did I mention slow?. I don't know what causes so much slow-ness, but man... I've measured the time (yes, I'm a time maniac xD) that takes into opening Firefox, Thunderbird, Notepad, WinAmp and MSN (except on Linux when I try Pidgin and Audacious) and I can open twice the programs in Windows (Well, except MSN because it's slow as always and it takes a bit of time to load), and I'm still waiting for the same apps to load in Linux, while if I was on Windows I'd be using the programs already. Also, even without Compiz or desktop effects, GUI apps appear lotta faster in Windows than in Linux. They're almost instant-display (if they aren't already) while in Linux sometimes I feel I'm using the old 933Mhz I had back a few years ago.
4. Fasten the Filesystem: And I won't try to extend on how my computer suffers from video/input lags when I'm installing some packages or the OS is in "heavy" HD use. And I say "heavy" because reading a damn package list shouldn't take THAT long. Neither opening any app in Linux which has a Windows build too, and the Windows build is 2x-5x faster than the Linux build. Shame. And why? it takes a LOT to read/write. I don't know WTF is wrong with the HD, but if you ask me, I know it isn't malfunctioning. Hell, Seagate disks are awesome (contrary to my Maxtor one which is having hella problems, and since then it has had Windows, and even with its normal, Windows typically heavy load syndrom, it's faster than my x64 Linux. Oh, and this happens in XFS... in Ext3 it even lags for a small bit when opening GEdit (no kidding).
5. Leave the terminal for the sysadmins: As in my previous example about trying to kill a hanged app, I know it's damn useful for when X hangs and you just switch to a terminal and kill X and/or restart X/GDM/KDM/whatever (a normal user would just reboot) but, Jesus, do I even have to open a terminal to convert an audio file or to edit some configuration file?. In Windows, "edit" was used back when MS-DOS and Win98 maximum (it's a great CLI editor too... not many features but the GUI rocks, it's for humans, as oppossed to some famous CLI editor for which you need to have a space shuttle keyboard, or use it just like "debug" or "edlin"... remember that one? :P).
6. GUI GUI GUI GUI GUI: did I say GUI?. As far as I know, there's no easy, cool, decent GUI for ffmpeg (maybe for Windows) that can provide all the features ffmpeg can do (ffs, ffmpeg can do what VirtualDub+Windows Movie Maker+GoldWave can do under Windows) but no one ever cares about GUI. Who needs GUI anyways? dumb users. OH YEAH, we all love the terminal... NOT. Again, we're in the 2007 (almost 2008 by now)... will we keep being in the stone age, typing comands in a black screen telling the computer what to do, when they can provide us amazing graphics and physics such as Crysis, powerful 3D modelling programs such as 3D Studio MAX, or even be our communication center with the rest of the world?. Seriously though, gotta grow up.

That's all I can think about right now (and sorry for the rant... I got carried away :P) but when I find more I'll extend the list in another blog post :).

Also, I've always said: "There's no need to emulate Windows programs, unless the Linux programs aren't good enough" and it's true. Why WINE? I'll tell you why:

• There's no Starcraft for Linux. Just a clone... Stratagus I think, but it's no SC.
• There's no Warcraft III for Linux...
• There's no World of Warcraft for Linux...
• There's no GGClient for Linux...
• There's no Quicken for Linux... (I think GMoney or whatever its name was doesn't cut it for most users? less confidence, perhaps)
• There's no 3D Studio MAX for Linux (The Lightwave/Maya/Wings3D/Blender (EWWWW) interface isn't good enough, or it's a space shuttle one)
• There's no Office for Linux (but OpenOffice rocks :))
• There's no GameMaker for Linux (maybe.. MAYBE pygame... :/)
• There's no Matlab for Linux (AFAIK)
• There IS Nero for Linux (YAY :D)... but they don't include it with their CD/DVD drives :/. Did I mention that the CD/DVD burning programs for Linux kinda suck? I've lost tons of CDs/DVDs because of them... and Nero doesn't work in WINE either. Boo-hoo.
• There's no cellphone software for Linux, that I know of, so if I wouldn't have Windows I wouldn't be able to use the cool stuff that my W200i has in its support/driver CD.

This list, and more and more and more stuff I won't be getting deeper into, is actually the fault of: The community, or the providers/developers themselves. Maybe they don't want to develop for Linux/Mac, it's ok. But that's a BIG gap in Linux and that's why WINE exists, Crossover Office exists, Cedega exists, Transmeta exists, Seamless Mode in VMWare/VirtualBox exists...

Now I want to clarify something: I don't want Linux to behave like Windows does, either (we already have enough with Kernel Panic, XD) but it doesn't hurt to learn from the best. Why does people use Windows? because of the marketing? ... that's a big plus, but it isn't the main thing.

Ubuntu can come shipped with Dell PCs, Intel's OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) program, whatever crosses your mind, BUT IT WILL NEVER GET AN AWESOME USER BASE IF THE FIRST DAMN THING THE USER SEES WHEN LOOKING FOR HELP IS "Open a terminal and type..." THEY SAY "WTF MAN?!" AND PREFER TO SPEND MONEY IN SOMETHING EASIER. But, of course, who doesn't want an easy life?

Computers are here for making our life easier (or at least, for that objective they were designed at first) and Linux isn't helping at all. Don't confuse though, I love the terminal (it's awesome for headless fileservers and such) and the control you get to your OS from it is unequal compared to Windows, but it's scary for most users.

That doesn't mean I don't use the Command Prompt in Windows and that I'm all GUIGUIGUIGUIGUI, but I use it far less times than I open a terminal in Linux for doing the same stuff that I can do in Windows with a GUI.

With fame comes a greater user base. With a greater user base comes the programs. With the programs, comes the +userfriendly factor in Linux, so people spreads the word, and the loop... loops.

I'd bet that most important companies don't try to support Linux because:

• "Who uses Linux? 5% of the global population?" - LOL.
• "The community can make their own drivers for my device. Windows doesn't, or it does poorly, but at least it makes my device work" - That's true. I still can't get my D-Link DWL-G122 Rev. B1 working in Ubuntu x64 (but it works in i386). Don't confuse though, D-Link has x64 drivers ............. for Windows -_-
• "They have 82317632876132663116387132 distros, I can't support them all!!" - Seriously, focus on a main distro dammit. (Alright, that's impossible, but at least try to keep them to the minimum! :/... that confuses less users, or do you have to go to a distrowatch.com-like site to choose what Windows do you want?)
• And I can't think on any more reasons.

So yeah, to put it short:

• Windows doesn't scare users. Linux does.
• Make it more attractive: Fix the damn fonts and the oversized spacing between window elements.
• Make it faster: Fix the GUI and the Filesystem.
• Make it more accessible: At least develop GUI front-ends!!, it never hurts to have the CLI alternative, but it shouldn't be the only way to use the program.
• Make it friendlier: Remove the terminal from the bare user's eyes unless they're ready to do so, and when I mean ready, I mean: "OH NOEZ I HAV LYK 318312837 VIRUSES I NEED TO FIXXXXX" (of course, you can't have viruses in Linux nowadays, but you get the idea: Unless it's the last thing to do... say a GUI app screws up your configuration file... Ok, it's a good reason).

Of course, you might be saying by now: WELL THIS GUY JUST WHINES AND DOESN'T DO ANYTHING TO HELP HIS OWN CAUSE!!!!1111111oneoneoneelevenoneexclamationmarkone!1

I am.

I'm working along with a couple of very skilled friends on a 2D-soon-to-be-3D engine for making games easily under Linux and C++. All you'll need to do is to learn basic C++ and you'll be creating your own games in MINUTES. Yes, no kidding. I grew tired of searching in google's pants about some good, easy gamemaking library for Linux and found none. All of them were either complicated, hard to use, didn't had enough features, was slow, it required its own file format, etc.

If you want to stop by, we're developing a Gunbound-like multiplayer worms-like clone while at the same time developing the engine for the game and for any kind of game, since the engine is generic.

You can find more info at http://www.iteamgame.org and http://iteam.wikispaces.com :)

DEVELOPERS WANTED! :D

... Phew. That was a 3-hour first blog post!... longest one in my life I've ever made xD. If you read all up to here, then THANKS! :D you rule. Here's a cookie for ya :P.

- DARKGuy

Infatti, contestualmente alla diffusione dei formati audio digitali, sono cresciuti sia i servizi forniti che le esigenze dei fruitori di musica ed i contenuti accessori al semplice ascolto sono diventati parte integrante dell'esperienza musicale.

Tuttavia la pletora di funzioni disponibili oggi sui moderni lettori potrebbe non essere necessaria per qualcuno o addirittura rendere frustrante l'ascolto della musica, rischiando di passare più tempo a configurare e gestire il software piuttosto che ascoltare le canzoni preferite.

Ma chi non si ricorda di Winamp nelle sue prime incarnazioni? Nel mio caso è stato il primo lettore che ho usato nel lontano 1997 o giù di lì e per quei tempi possedeva tutto ciò di cui avevo bisogno: interfaccia spartana, riproduzione di mp3, lettura di ID tag, funzioni di playlist avanzata, equalizzazione, shoutcast e un sistema di plugin niente male.

Una delle prime versioni di Winamp

Per fortuna esisteva un clone di Winamp anche su GNU/Linux, Xmms, compatibile in quasi tutte le funzioni della sua controparte Windows ma che ad oggi non viene più sviluppato assiduamente. Esiste però un suo sucessore che ha ripreso le caratteristiche di Xmms e le ha migliorate, rendendolo uno dei migliori player di sempre.

Sto parlando di Audacious, la nostalgica quintessenza dell'audiofilo PC-addicted.

Allora installiamolo e proviamolo!

Visto che vogliamo installare l'ultima versione del lettore, non presente nei repository ufficiali di Gutsy, dobbiamo aggiungerne uno nuovo a manina

gksu gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://backports.dereferenced.org/ gutsy universe

sudo apt-get update

Cerchiamo dunque il programma su Synaptic o più semplicemente da terminale

sudo apt-get install audacious audacious-plugins audacious-plugins-extra

e come al solito automagicamente ci ritroviamo tutto pronto all'uso.

Una volta fatto partire ci troviamo davanti ad una interfaccia decisamente familiare :D

Audacious all'avvio con qualche plugin

Grazie al sistema dei plugin ( ce ne sono veramente tantissimi! ) possiamo scegliere di caricare solamente quello che ci interessa; personalmente mi limito a qualche effetto grafico, sul piano audio ho inserito il plugin chiamato Extra Stereo e quello che aggiorna il mio profilo su Last.fm

Panoramica delle finestre e opzioni

L'installazione di Audacious non comprende però i preset per l'equalizzatore, ragion per cui ve li metto a disposizione io, sono presi dritti dritti da winamp

Scarica i preset per l'equalizzatore di Audacious

Il contenuto dell'archivio va scompattato in /home/tuonome/.config/audacious

Che dire, vi lascio all'esplorazione del programma e buon ascolto ;)

Audacious reproduce los formatos MP3, OGG, WAV y Flac, entre otros, además tiene soporte para las pieles o skins de Winamp 2 (también conocido como Winamp Classic). Se espera dar mejor soporte a los skins del tipo free-form (forma libre) en la serie 1.3.x

La última versión estable es la 1.3.2 que fue lanzada el 5 de abril del 2007. También es necesario el paquete Audacious-plugins que contiene extensiones para reproducir formatos de sonido propietarios o no libres como es el caso del MP3.

Descargar

Para descargarlo simplemente abre la consola y escribe

sudo apt-get install audacious

Y Listo! Ya tienes audacious en Aplicaciones > Sonido Y Video > Audacious

É moda entre os usuários Windows ativar um plugin no Windows Live Messenger que se integra ao Windows Media Player e mostra o que o indivíduo está ouvindo.

Esta dica é para você, usuário Linux que sente falta de algo similar a esse plugin. Mostro hoje o MusicTracker, um plugin para o Pidgin(programa de mensagens instantâneas) que se integra com inúmeros players for Linux para mostrar o que você está ouvindo.

Diretamente da página do projeto no Google Code:

MusicTracker is a plugin for Pidgin (previously known as Gaim) which displays the music track currently playing in the status message of various accounts such as AIM, Yahoo, MSN, Gtalk (Jabber), etc., i.e. any protocol Pidgin supports custom statuses on. Support for a wide range of audio players on both Windows and Linux platforms is planned. Currently supported players: Amarok, Rhythmbox, Audacious, XMMS, MPC/MPD, Exaile, Banshee, Quod Libet on Linux. Winamp, Windows Media Player (9+), iTunes, Foobar2000 (incomplete support) on Windows.

Tradução livre:

MusicTracker é um plugin para o Pidgin que mostra a música que está tocando atualmente no status de vários protocolos como AIM, Yahoo, MSN, Gtalk(Jabber), etc. e.g qualquer protocolo do Pidgin que suporte status personalizado. O suporte para uma grande faixa de player tanto para Windows como para Linux é planejado. Players suportados atualmente: Amarok, Rhythmbox, Audacious, XMMS, MPC/MPD, Exaile, Banshee, QuodLibet no Linux. Winamp, WIndows Media Player(9+), iTunes, Foobar2000(suporte incompleto) no Windows.

Quer uma amostra? Aí vai:

Instalação

Nenhuma das distribuições que eu conheço inclui o MusicTracker em seus repositórios. Por isso teremos que compilá-lo direto do código fonte.

Antes de começar devemos instalar algumas dependências. As dependências inluem:

• Pidgin 2.0.0 ou superior
• As bibliotecas de desenvolvimento do Pidgin(comumente pidgin-devel)
• A biblioteca pcre e seu pacote de desenvolvimento (comumente pcre e pcre-devel)
• Dbus-glib

Instalação das dependências:

Debian, Ubuntu e derivados:

# apt-get install libpcre3-dev pidgin-dev

OpenSuSE

Selecione os pacotes pcre-devel e pidgin-devel no YaST.

Mandriva

# urpmi libpcre-devel pidgin-devel

ToDo: Preciso incluir a instalação das dependências em outras distribuições.

Pra instalar o plugin em si não basta mais do que baixar, descompactar e executar os três comandinhos mágicos:

$ wget -c http://musictracker.googlecode.com/files/musictracker-0.4.1.tar.bz2
$ tar jxvf musictracker-0.4.1.tar.bz2
$ cd musictracker-0.41
$ ./configure
$ make
# make install (como root)

Nota: Para os usuário do ArchLinux, existe uma PKGBUILD no AUR do MusicTracker. Ela pode ser encontrada aqui.

Usando o Plugin

Abra o Pidgin, conecte-se e vá em Ferramentas > Plugins. Localize o MusicTracker, ative-o e clique em Configurar plugin.

Em Player você pode selecionar o player que você usa e que será detectado.
A opção Status Format permite que você configure o modo como será mostrada a música na sua mensagem de status. Para isso você deve usar o código referente às variáveis do MusicTracker. Em Adicionar há uma lista completa, mas aqui vão algumas:

• %p - Artista
• %a - Album
• %t - Nome da música
• %m - Símbolo de nota musical
• %d - Duração da Música

Feita a configuração, você pode ser supercool novamente e mostrar pra todo mundo o que está ouvido ;)

Abraços e até a próxima

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