computer music player woes

[cimorene]

This is my angry face. :|

My problem is Linux music players. All my research suggests Amarok and Banshee are the most stable and functional.

- Banshee is more supportive of iPods (instant and effortless), but it doesn't recognise or convert m4as. Meanwhile, the collective online Knowledge Base seems to think it does, which means you can't find any support for it, just annoying posts like "It sure does, I just did it!" despite the whole NO CODEC error message and lack of useful Google hits.

- Amarok plays all the music but crashes within 10 minutes every time I try to build a playlist and I just can't hack that.

So am I going to have to download a completely separate program just to convert my m4as to the more lossy linux format?

Comments

[wax-jism.livejournal.com]

To get better google hits, try opening Banshee in Konsole (just type banshee) and then look at what the error reports say there--you'll see everything the program is doing as it's doing it. Then google the exact reports.