<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I’m using Clementine to keep playlists, playing songs one at a time.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(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.<br class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><b class="">What I want:</b> When running an event, we step through all of the songs in a single playlist. Songs are played in order, stopping after each one.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><b class="">What I *don’t* need in a music player</b> is what seem to be the most popular features:</div><div class=""> Ability to play a whole playlist as a unit, or at random;</div><div class=""> Access to download from music sources; and,</div><div class=""> Flashy graphics, or album and performer information.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Clementine is very popular and has behaved consistently for me. </b>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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Does anyone know of a player that is (a) very stable [like Clementine], and (b) documented ?</b></div><div class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class=""><div class=""><b class="">I tried Rhythmbox,</b> but it kept freezing on me. Apparently that’s a known problem.</div><div class="">Rhythmbox apparently has no way to stop after a song if other songs are inline, so that was another deal-breaker.</div><div class="">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 <i class="">do not produce</i> XML conversion data, but mine was a little older so the file was there.)</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Current problems I’m working with Clementine are:</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">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 <u class="">how to make it a favorite</u>.</b> 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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">We can only mark <i class="">one</i> song at a time to stop at the end.</b> 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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Victor</div></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>