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On Mon Aug 21, 2006 at 03:17:09PM +0200, Dominique Michel wrote:
> Alsaplayer will soon be removed from portage:
>
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143402
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143742
>
> I like it very much to play with audio cd. Is it some other cd player
> that have the possibility to change the speed of the playback both
> fordward and backward in a linear fashion as alsaplayer can do?
>
> If not, I suggest at we keep it in the overlay tree. Maybe add a warning
> in the ebuild as what at it can crash sometime and at it is not
> recommended to use it as a sound player for a browser.
agreed. i use it because it has excellent incomplete-file handling (eg from a browser or streamripper) and a native JACK support. why are they removing it. just becuse it hasnt had an updated isnce 2004 or somethign? silly...