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Is there anything better than rhythmbox, which does not support navigation between tracks inside archives?

Emre
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    Sorry, but why would you want to have audio files in zip archives? That doesn't make them any smaller, you'll have essentially 0 compression of an mp3 for example. – terdon Mar 18 '14 at 22:04
  • 1. It's primarily for organization; I want to be able to play all related tracks together. 2. MIDI files do compress. – Emre Mar 18 '14 at 23:06
  • 1. Is solved by every modern player that automatically scans your collection to build a library. 2. Use a filesystem that supports on the fly compression like `btrfs`. Of course you are free to choose. Just saying that there are more efficient solutions. – LiveWireBT Mar 19 '14 at 03:38
  • 1. No, it is not; the files don't have metadata. 2. I'm certainly not going to change my file system just for this; I have other considerations, constraints. **** The is something Winamp easily did back in the 90s, so I'm not asking for much. – Emre Mar 19 '14 at 03:49

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DeaDBeeF (http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net/) via this plugin can play music tracks from RAR, 7z and Gzip archives.

Visit this link for a short video showing this feature.

DeaDBeeF can be installed from this ppa

Sylvain Pineau
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