Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] [ANN] Aqualung, a new music player for GNU/Linux
From: Tom Szilagyi (tszilagyi_AT_users.sourceforge.net)
Date: Sat Sep 04 2004 - 12:57:50 EEST
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 02:58:12PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote:
> Tom Szilagyi wrote:
> ...
> >In addition to all this, Aqualung comes with a Music Store that is an
> >XML-based music database, capable of storing various metadata about
> >music on your computer (including, but not limited to, the names of
> >artists, and the titles of records and tracks). This is much more
> >efficient than the all-in-one Winamp/XMMS playlist.
>
> does it allow to edit mp3 info (tags)? (something close to easytag in
> nature, maybe not that comlex)
>
Not yet. It has its own system based on XML, independent of audio
files. It may allow importing mp3 tag data in the future. But the
system is not a one-for-one parallelism of what mp3 tags offer, so
it's not trivial.
> I'm looking for some player with reasonable playlist management (i.e.
> not playlist based like xmms:-) something like what freeamp does (I like
> freeamp interface but it was too unstable every time I tried to use it
> for a longer period).
Go ahead and see if it's good for you :)
Tom
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