New music player proposal

[Aere Greenway]

All:

Personally, I like Audacious, and have been using it (specially
installed) in whatever Ubuntu 'flavor' I have used.  

What some people see as 'advanced' or 'many features' is to others
useless complication.  

I do not (personally) like the players that organize your music by
various criteria (such as genre), or by how often you play it.  

I have my music collection organized in a directory structure, and just
want to easily access that directory structure to choose what I play.
Audacious does this very well, and doesn't impose its own structure on
your music collection.  

I don't want to have to import my entire collection, and then have to
categorize everything according to the particular player's criteria.  

Audacious is simple, unobtrusive, and works well.  

Better yet, it is one of the few players that reliably works with the
Jack audio connection kit, which I must use in doing my MIDI music
creations.  

Of course, if others agree with you, and change the player that is
automatically installed, I will continue to install (and use) Audacious
on my own.  

- Aere

On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 14:22 +0200, Timothé Beemster wrote:

> Hi lads,
> 
> I've been using Lubuntu for some time now, but the first thing I
> always do after installing Lubuntu, is get rid of Audacious, and
> install GMPC (Gnome Music Player Client, it does not depend on Gnome
> (any more)).
> GMPC is fully featured, and praised for it's low resource usage, also
> on playlists with over a million songs.
> GMPC is using a plugin system, so not all functionality is obligatory,
> if you don't use it, just turn it off!
> 
> I would like to propose to get rid of Audacious, and make GMPC the
> default music player, as it is a more fully featured music player than
> Audacious, in my opinion.
> 
> Some facts about GMPC:
> 
>  - Website: www.gmpclient.org
>  - In continuous development since 2003
>  - Depends on the great Music Player Daemon
>  - Automatic album art search, lyrics search, artist info.
>  - Multimedia keys
>  - Dynamic playlists (searches similar music based on Last.FM
> searches)
>  - Jamendo & Magnatune music browser
>  - Album View
>  - Metadata Browser
> + a lot more.
> 
> I would love to hear your opinions, and hope you are with me here!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Timothy Beemster


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Sincerely,
Aere
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