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Better way of browsing my music please?

Asked by Mr Noodle

I've been looking for a good music player on Ubuntu since I discovered it not long ago, and so far Rythmbox is about the best. I only have a couple of problems. First, I can't find an EQ, which is minor, and the other is fairly annoying. I have about about 5 and a half thousand songs and in order to find songs by a particular artist, I have to scroll through the list, as using the keyboard to type in the first letter of something will only search through the song titles and I can't find a way to change it so it'll search through the ARTISTS instead, like you can with WMP or iTunes.

Anyone know how I can achieve this?

Thanks

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midnightflash (midnightflash) said : 		#1

Beside the search-bar should be buttons: All - Artist - Album - Title
With those buttons you are able to change the things found.

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Mr Noodle (mr-squirtboater) said : 		#2

That's not quite what I'm after. Doing that narrows down the list of songs.

In windows media player, you click on a song in the list of songs, type in the first couple of letters of an artist and it selects the first nearest match with everything else still on the list, meaning it can still play anything if it was on, say, shuffle. I'm not able to do that with Rythmbox

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Rui Moreira (rui-f-moreira) said : 		#3

Have you tried Amarok ? In my opinion it's far better than Rythmbox.

Check it out and if you like it, you should setup mysql database for Amarok so it'll load faster (5.500 songs is huge).

You can find further instructions here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-561990.html

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midnightflash (midnightflash) said : 		#4

Ah... I see!
But indeed RB is doing like you wish!
http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/6751/bildschirmfotomusikwied.png
Look in the downrightcorner. :-)

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Mr Noodle (mr-squirtboater) said : 		#5

I have tried Amarok, yes. I can't get it to work though, nor can I really understand it. I guess I haven't really given it enough time, seeing as a lot of people seem to like it.

midnightflash, that works for you because you have the artist's name in the title. I only have the song name in the title, so if I wanted to hear something by a band called 'Insomnium', I'd type that in, and the closest match it would find would be 'Insomnia' by a completely different band called 'Isole'

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Mr Noodle (mr-squirtboater) said : 		#6

Thanks for your suggestions, but I've found Songbird is more to my liking and is far more flexible