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 <
brian@snaptek.com> 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
>
>
>
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