Is a decent music player really that hard to find...

[jmadero]

Hi All,

I have a pretty straight forward (I thought) request for a music player and I'm hitting problems EVERYWHERE

So what I need:

1. Plays music on my computer
2. Can transfer music & playlists to my Creative Zen
3. Can burn cd's within the player (and make auto convert to .wav's so I can play in my vehicle).

What I've tried
Songbird -- No transfer, no cd burning
Amarok 1.4 -- Glitch makes it so at 4 gigs it says the zen is full (it's not, it has 8 gigs)
Amarok 2 -- no playlist transfer, no cd burning
Rhythmbox -- no cd burning, no playlist transfer
Banshee -- no cd burning, playlist support is weird (can't transfer playlists, can only create playlists within banshee on the Zen so I have to have either a computer playlist or a zen playlist and then recreate it on the other if I want it on both)


Seriously....why is this such a big deal? I HATE comparing to Windows but....WMP does all of these things pretty straight forward


I'd like to have lyrics and a wiki page (like songbird and amarok do) but I'll sacrifice them for the other features....which all seem so basic

[HROAdmin26]

If you understand the roots/motto of Unix (create small programs that do one thing well/cleanly), then you understand why large, glob-like programs that tackle many tasks are not common.

I myself am the exact opposite. I want a super small program that *just* plays music. If I want to burn something, I'll using the correct tool.

No one is going to say one way is right and the other is wrong, but there is a history behind the minimalist method.

[jmadero]

I would agree but building a playlist and easily being able to burn it really doesn't seem like an "anti-minamalist" statement, it's just a "why do I need 4 programs to do 2 things" and then "why do I need to recreate the same playlist 4 times in 4 programs and then recreate it one more time on my zen to have it available for me to use where I want it"

[rokytnji]

Since you run Ubuntu jmadero for

3. Can burn cd's within the player (and make auto convert to .wav's so I can play in my vehicle)

Music Player With mp3 CD Burning Capability
Press Alt-F2 and enter
Code:
brasero
Click Audio Project
You can then drag and drop files from Rhythmbox or the file manager

I keep this little tidbit in a doc file in ~/Documents folder (to remind me) in ubuntu for just that function.

As far as the Zen player goes. I can't help with that because. I use a RCA Mp3 player that works well with Exaile and Guyadeque Music players. Maybe works for ya. Maybe not.