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You know what's weird? Mplayer plays FLAC files just fine here, whether

from a playlist or all by itself. Of course, so does Kaffeine.
FWIW, it reports the length of MP3 files wrong, too - it reports one of

my own recordings at 5m08s but the song only runs 2m22s ...
Aaron L. wrote:
> You know what's weird?

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>

> Every player I've tried so far (Songbird, Amarok, MPlayer, Aqualung)

> reads the FLAC file's length incorrectly.

>

> Why is this?

>

> I'm willing to bet this could be part of the reason that all the players

> I've tried cannot reliable play a FLAC playlist.

>

> Hmmmmm.

>

> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Aaron L. wrote:

>

>     You know what's weird?

>

>     Every player I've tried so far (Songbird, Amarok, MPlayer, Aqualung)

>     reads the FLAC file's length incorrectly.

>

>     Why is this?

>

>     I'm willing to bet this could be part of the reason that all the

>     players I've tried cannot reliable play a FLAC playlist.

>

>     Hmmmmm.

>

>

>     On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 6:22 AM, Sean Corbett

>     > wrote:

>

>         Ah, the usual Linux music player run-around... Lately I've found

>         myself enjoying the simplicity of MOC (http://moc.daper.net/).  It

>         automatically uses Jack if it's running, and if not goes

>         directly for

>         ALSA.  It's terminal/curses based, very simple and lightweight

>         with a

>         Midnight-Commander-like interface.  Being able to ssh to it without

>         X-forwarding is nice.

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David

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