Clementine music player, or something better?

[Brian Cluff]

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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