Subj : Music Sites For Linux To : ROB MCCART From : Christopher Perrault Date : Fri Sep 02 2005 03:04 pm Re: Music Sites For Linux By: ROB MCCART to CHRISTOPHER PERRAULT on Fri Aug 19 2005 04:43 am > Since this started out as questions about Music in Linux... > > 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 I have had limited success with RealPlayer in the past. I recently got rid of the last one I had installed, as I had pretty much no luck in getting it to work with websites. I can't remember all the problems now but even when I was able to get it to work in the past, it was very SLOOOOWWW . I'll probably try to give it another go in the future, but right now I'm running a system similar to your friends. It's AMD but it is also around 500 Mhz. I'm in the market for another computer for windows and a new motherboard and CPU combo for this one. > there other players that are much better? Sorry I don't have > the exact specs on his system right in front of me but it's high > end enough to run Win XP pretty well I know.. Since I first posted I've had a couple 'breakthroughs'. While I still haven't gotten any custom made players for particular sites, I am happily running streaming media(Live365) through XMMS and got Opera set up to run it whenever I click to open a .pls file. The live365 site is a bit slow so it feels like a bit of a hack. I think if I looked into it a little more I could configure Opera to handle a lot of that stuff automatically. I just haven't had much luck with plugins and the such for some reason. > He also seems to be finding really poor support for USB2 devices > which often work but are Much slower than the same hardware > in Windows XP, especially USB (Thumb?, Key?) drives. It will > work poorly with a 17 meg one he has but neither of those distros, > or Knoppix, will even think about a 2 gig one he recently bought. > I know I can only speak for myself on this, but Mandriva is the only distro I've had luck with when it comes to hardware detection out of the box. It's been a while since I tried other distro's, but for some reason Red Hat has rarely worked well with any of my hardware. It might just be me, but I have heard of others having hardware problems with even recent releases of Red Hat. Don't know if it's the distro or the hardware, but it kind of suprises me. /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /////// Chris Perrault ////////// ////// THE DIAMOND MINE BBS ////////// ///// Telnet bbs.dmine.net ////////// /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// --- þ Synchronet þ Diamond Mine Online BBS - bbs.dmine.net .