Subj : Music Sites For Linux
To   : ANGUS MCLEOD
From : ROB MCCART
Date : Sat Aug 20 2005 06:08 pm

RM> > A friend of mine was playing with Fedora Core 4 and then tried
  > > Suse 9.3 but both included little or no support for MP3 playing
  > > (using XMMS) and he finally installed (or tried?) RealPlayer in
  > > Suse 9.3, which he says is really nice otherwise but, again,
  > > playing MP3's in RealPlayer, he says it 'hickups'. Plays about
  > > 30 seconds, stops for a split second and goes on. Just enough
  > > to be annoying. Do these programs usually work well or are
  > > there other players that are much better?

AM>I play Ogg Vorbis with XMMS and have no problems at all.  I've
  >played MPEG audio from time to time and again have no problems.

Ogg is nice. It tends to make bigger files than MP3, even at
high flow rates, but a lot of people say the sound quality
is better. I only play MP3's and Ogg's through the computer
so the sound quality there is probably not good enough to pick
out really minor differences. I've created files from the
same CD in both formats so I am comparing identical setups.

My friend has since found what he called a 'multi media package'
and said it's working much better now. Whether the package
supplies a different player or just new codecs I'm not sure yet..

He's tried multiple versions of Linux over the years but
always found them just a little lacking in things he needed
but he's sounding really 'up' on Suse 9.3. He said it installed
easier than Win XP and does pretty much everything. Getting online
took a bit of playing (more-so than any Win version would have)
but it wasn't that bad and the rest of it he quite likes so far.
This was some full 5 CD set.

USB2 support he found wasn't that good. Some things that work
'out of the box' in Win XP worked, only slower, and other things
refused to work at all (i.e.. a 2 gig USB thumb/key/jump drive).

It's only been a couple of days so he may discover things
he's missed so far that improve on this. He's definitely
no Linux expert.

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