On my hoary box, xine (0.99.3) is the only app I have working, so far, that plays music. For some reason, I can't load a directory into the playlist... and then also have it still be there the next time I logon.

I can click on the little playlist button at the upper left of the gui. In there I click on add. I find my music directory and click on the Add button, but it just opens up the directory. It doesn't add any files to the playlist. So I try to select mulitple files or multiple directories there, but I can only open one directory and add one song file at a time. Click, add. Click, add. Click, add. etc...

If I right click on the gui, click on Playlist, Load, and then go to my Music directory and click on Load, nothing happens.

Maybe it's a permissions issue. Maybe I need to incoporate sudo in there somewhere?? (Maybe I need to put my life on hold again and read reems of documents and become a xine configuration guru... )

Any ideas?

Thanks...

right click on the movie window the one who shows you the film. Then chose open and then file. Go to your music directory and then select all.

[Slaps forehead]

That worked. Thanks.

I guess the thing is that I was trying to use the 'Playlist' option, when I should have used the 'Open/File' option first and then saved the Playlist for future loading.

Hi,
I didnt have a problem with this I just open the playlist then > add >browse to the directory select one song and then hit Ctrl+a to select them all then load them all then save them.

Dont know if I misunderstood your prolem ?

You could try Kaffeine, it uses the Xine Engine but has more controls than Gxine and I found it more user freindly although it does install the KDE base, I know some like to just have Gnome installed.