![]() ![]() Out of curiosity, I took a look at the Fedora link on Fedora COPR, and it also looks quite up-to-date, offering builds for Fedora 23–26. The site offers other downloads for Flatpak, Arch Linux, Fedora, FreeBSD, and OpenSUSE. Although it's not in my work computer's repositories, there is a "Download Ubuntu/Debian" link that points to an up-to-date PPA on. With that, I did not bother to continue my evaluation. Aqualung will not pass the bit stream unchanged through to the digital-to-analog converter. I could play my 44.1-KHz files just fine with the default setting, but to play my 96-KHz files, I had to stop and restart with that sample rate. I ended up needing to use the plughw device to get Aqualung to start.Īt that point, I was disappointed to discover that Aqualung seems to require a fixed output sample rate. However, the site notes that you can specify the output device on the command line. Once Aqualung was up and running, I saw a straightforward and relatively barebones two-window user interface, the player itself and the "Music Store." I opened Preferences by right-clicking on the music pane of the player and looked around to see where I could select my AudioQuest DragonFly digital-to-analog converter, but I saw no sign of anything there. And from there, I was able to execute /usr/local/bin/aqualung. Next, I was able to configure cleanly and do a make and a make install. I installed pkgconf and dev versions of libasound, libflac, libmp3lame, libvorbis, libxml2, libglib2.0, and libgtk+-2.0, generally following the suggestions of the compiling page on the site and the usual "hints" from the configure script. does have personal package archives (PPAs), but they seem a bit out of date, so why not build from source? ![]() While the comments there suggest that most major Linux distributions include a built copy of Aqualung, this is not the case with the distro I'm currently using on my work computer, Ubuntu 16.10. But maybe this explains why I find the XMMS-derived players to be a bit odd in terms of their music browsing capability.Īccording to the Aqualung download page, the official release is source-only. ![]() This puzzled me because I think I have always had my music organized into a tree of artists, albums, and tracks. "You can (and should) organize your music into a tree of Artists/Records/Tracks, thereby making life easier than with the all-in-one Winamp/XMMS playlist." One of the comments there I found interesting was this one: AqualungĪqualung has a clearly written website that explains its various features. Not wanting to install stuff from the wild on my work computer, I promised to configure a "test bed" for this purpose and detail the results. Three players suggested to me by kind readers were not available in my repositories: Aqualung, Lollypop, and GogglesMM. Should present good-to-great overall organization, layout, and performance.Should show the signal level and effective bit rate as the music plays.Should provide a simple approach to cover art-use the embedded cover art or fall back to cover.jpg (or.Should not force the user to always interact through playlists.Should have a good "smart playlist" feature.Must be configurable to pass the music through unchanged to ALSA.Over the past year, I've been taking a look at the various players available in December 2016 I summarized my ongoing evaluation of open music players using these six criteria: I propose that our "form of music" includes open music players. Wikipedia's article on the history of music contains this great phrase: "Since all people of the world, including the most isolated tribal groups, have a form of music." Well, we open source folk form a tribe-that's for sure. ![]()
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