looking for a gui audio player

[manit123]

I have tried xmms but there is no way to change volume & navigate in time stream using keyboard .
I am fond of mplayer which has right & left arrow for 10 seconds ,up & down arrow for a minute increase/decrease in time axis.
I am using gmplayer which is fine except it shows a video window not needed while playing audio files.

[aus9]

Hi

you asked for a gui audio player

vlc

but me thinks you mean cli audio player

try

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vlc -h


[tinypoodle]

By my understanding, that window of gmplayer is present to serve as an XDND GUI interface, which of course needs to be visible before one could use it.
Using pure mplayer, windows are only created upon need and automatically torn down when no longer required.

xine-ui has an option

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-H, --hide-video             hide video windowand besides from that features a key binding editor.
I couldn't exclude such features might also be available in some mplayer GUI frontends.

If you are interested in a console GUI audio player, I could suggest looking into mp3blaster which is fully keyboard controlled.

[hiro]

from the confused text you wrote I can only assume you want everything at once.

you can use mpd with multiple clients
mpc to control stuff from cli, ncmpc as a comfortable ncurses client and gmpc or so as a graphical client for windows users.

[manit123]

trying to make myself clearer
I will create a desktop entry whose exec will be 'application-name %f' so that when I double click on audiofiles in my file manager I should get a window looking like mp3player showing time & volume scale . It would be nice if I can navigate in time using keyboard as I am habitual in mplayer . gmplayer is nice except it shows the additional video window which is not needed .

[tinypoodle]

I should get a window looking like mp3player showing time & volume scale .

Any reference? Google doesn't seem to know this...

[AmatCoder]

I have tried xmms but there is no way to change volume & navigate in time stream using keyboard .
I am fond of mplayer which has right & left arrow for 10 seconds ,up & down arrow for a minute increase/decrease in time axis.
I am using gmplayer which is fine except it shows a video window not needed while playing audio files.

With gnome-mplayer you can use those keys (right & left arrow for 10 seconds, up & down arrow for a minute increase/decrease) and '9' & '0' keys for volume change. (like mplayer).
And it does not show video window when playing audio files.

[manit123]

I tried 'gmplayer -nofs %f' in my desktop file & all went well . I guess fs=yes in ~/.mplayer/config was the culprit.
Thank You all.

There is a small problem though.
In mplayer you can cycle through subtitle tracks using j & J .
I thought that the fontsize is big causing '...something.srt' to be seen on screen instead of full subtitle path
So I added in ~/.mplayer/config
subfont-autoscale=0
subfont-osd-scale=10
subfont-text-scale=10
Now I still see ... though there is lot of space on screen to write text in that line.
Does anybody know a way in which whole filename appears on screen ?

[tinypoodle]

Did you try if "-subwidth 100" does what you want?
(not having any subtitles here to test)

[manit123]

i wil try subwidth option & report here.

Another thing is - if I double click on multiple mp3 files then all of them start playing simultaneously in mulltiple windows . I want only one instance of mplayer so that recently clicked file only gets played.

I tried to write a script as follows
userapp-gmplayer.desktop in has in exec '/mnt/sdb1/one-instance-only.sh %f'
and /mnt/sdb1/one-instance-only.sh contains
!#/bin/sh
pkill gmplayer
gmplayer "$1"
Now on double clicking audio files nothing happens.
Where am I going wrong ?

[manit123]

to tinypoodle
-subwidth=100 did not help.
ALso you can get subtitles of any arbitrary movie from www.opensubtitles.org to verify what i am talking about.


Another problem remains about allowing only one instance of mplayer as mentioned above .

[tinypoodle]

!#/bin/sh

#!/bin/sh

[manit123]

Sorry , that was my typo .
I am looking for way in which only one instance of an audio-video player runs.
It would be a better if I am additionally able to queue another file in current player.

[AmatCoder]

I am looking for way in which only one instance of an audio-video player runs.
It would be a better if I am additionally able to queue another file in current player.

I do not want to be insistent but gnome-mplayer has an option for that...( Edit->Preferences->Interface->Only allow one instance of Gnome Mplayer )

[tinypoodle]

Sorry , that was my typo .
I am looking for way in which only one instance of an audio-video player runs.
It would be a better if I am additionally able to queue another file in current player.

FWIW, I find using mplayer from console most simple for such purpose:

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mplayer 1.mp3 2.mp3 3.mp3
or even

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mplayer *.mp3
Jumping between tracks is easily achieved with < > keys.