VLC is about the only player I know of that will do this, super straightforward UI but all the power you want under the hood when you need/want it. On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 9:38 AM, Brian Cluff wrote: > I just checked and VLC has a setting to pause at the end of each track > (Preferences -> Interface -> Pause on last frame of video) and when set it > does exactly that. You start the next track by just clicking the next > track button and away it goes till it hits the end of that track. I don't > see any fancy internal play list handing stuff, but you can create and save > play lists and when you load a new play list it's appended to the current > play list. > The interface can also to customized/dumbed down for what you need. I'm > not sure if it will fill your needs, but it seems to check a lot of the > boxes you wanted checked. > > Brian Cluff > > > > On 03/03/2018 05:58 PM, Victor Odhner wrote: > > I’m using Clementine to keep playlists, playing songs one at a time. > > (I have migrated from my Mac Mini because it’s vintage 2009, out of > support. I looked for a newer Mac Mini but the newest model is five years > old. I went to Linux because I don’t trust Apple or Microsoft not to jerk > us around, and I want to have a pretty stable 10-year solution. Of course > it was cheaper too, but that wasn’t the main issue. > > *What I want:* When running an event, we step through all of the songs in > a single playlist. Songs are played in order, stopping after each one. > > *What I *don’t* need in a music player* is what seem to be the most > popular features: > Ability to play a whole playlist as a unit, or at random; > Access to download from music sources; and, > Flashy graphics, or album and performer information. > > *Clementine is very popular and has behaved consistently for me. *It > lacks *any* real documentation except lots of discussions, mostly about > features that aren’t important to me. There’s one “full discussion” that > should be part of the installation but I don’t see it. I’ll keep digging > through these conversations. > > *Does anyone know of a player that is (a) very stable [like Clementine], > and (b) documented ?* > > *I tried Rhythmbox,* but it kept freezing on me. Apparently that’s a > known problem. > Rhythmbox apparently has no way to stop after a song if other songs are > inline, so that was another deal-breaker. > But I can thank Rhythmbox for leading me to an iTunes playlist converter. > No other music players seem ready to import playlist data. Rhythmbox > imported it initially but I had to bail due to freezes. But I still have > that conversion file, and was able to produce a nice text file that we can > search for history. (Newer versions of iTunes *do not produce* XML > conversion data, but mine was a little older so the file was there.) > > *Current problems I’m working with Clementine are:* > > *It says X-ing a tab for a saved playlist will delete the playlist because > it’s not a “Favorite,” but doesn’t tell us how to make it a favorite.* > The red heart at the bottom doesn’t do it. These are saved files. Our first > attempt saved a playlist that we can hide without deleting, even though I > see no indicator that it is a “favorite,” but the next two are “not a > favorite”. I’ll continue to read all discussions I can find. > > *We can only mark one song at a time to stop at the end.* Once it stops > after a song, that flag is removed. So their whole concept of a playlist is > start it and it plays through. I’d like to mark a whole playlist to stop at > the end of a song. This problem is liveable. > > Thanks, > > Victor > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen